2
2
zha̅ng
wǒ
men
shì
shuǐ
ji̅ng
liè
rén
Chapter 2: we are crystal hunters!
surname Zhang
chapter / section / clause / movement (of symphony) / seal / badge / regulation / order

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a section sign. James II of England (zh) wakes up with a jolt as his alarm clock (早) goes off in front of the anglepod (ang1). Panicked he tries to smash it with a big section sign (章), but instead he just smashes the invaluable vase (早) next to it.
we / us / ourselves / our
I; me; my

= + : I (我) find Willy Walrus (w) lying motionless in the observatory's living room (o3), and there's a dagger-axe (戈) sticking right in his chest. I (我) try to pull it out while wearing a baseball glove (手).
plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals

= + : Rosa Luxemburg and Mahatma Gandhi are fighting on top of the Erechtheion. Rosa thinks it will be an easy win, but she didn't see the trap door in the floor yet.
variant of 是[shi4] / (used in given names)
to be (followed by substantives only) / correct; right; true / (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well / (adverb for emphatic assertion)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a skull, from "to be or not to be".

Sherlock Holmes (sh) starts his day in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) with a mug of coffee (旦). Holding a skull (mnemonic symbol for 是) in his hands, he asks himself "to be, or not to be" (是). He wonders if he can make the skull come back to life using lots of coffee, and injects coffee from his mug into the skull using a syringe (龰).

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a skull, from "to be or not to be".

Sherlock Holmes (sh) watches the Neanderthal Man (人) trying to climb to the sun (日) on a ladder (下) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). Sherlock is afraid that he'll open the window, so he puts on a big skull (是) and scares him off.
surname Shui
water / river / liquid / beverage / additional charges or income / (of clothes) classifier for number of washes

= + + 丿 + : Sheldon Shrimp just climbed the Eiffel Tower. He's really thirsty, so he's glad to find a water fountain. After he quenches his thirst, he also finds a snack: A banana is swimming in the water. He never ate a banana before, so he tries a mix of different methods: Putting on a fake beak to pick on the banana, holding it with a finger and peeling it with a crowbar.
crystal

= : Joan of Arc (ji) wants to solve the atomic structure of the sun, and so she uses a lot of suns (日) to create a crystal (晶) for X-ray crystallography in front of the engine ((e)ng1).
hunting

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) goes hunting (猎) with her dachshund (犭). In the elevator's bathroom (e4) the dachshund corners a milk shake (昔).
person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: Neanderthal Man (人). Robinson Crusoe (r-) is looking for snacks in the encampment's kitchen (-en2) when he suddenly spots Neanderthal Man (人). Neanderthal Man offers him a banana (丿), but Robinson Crusoe doesn't trust the present and pokes it with a finger (㇏).