炒

to sauté / to stir-fry / to speculate / to hype / to fire (sb)

炒 = 少 + 火 : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is stir-frying (炒) smileys (少) cut from potatoes over a fire (火) in the aorta (ao3).

炒 character breakdown

炒
- 少
  - 丿
  - 小
    - 亅
    - 八
      - 丿
      - ㇏
- 火
  - 丶
  - 人
    - 丿
    - ㇏

few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom

少 = 丿 + 小 : Mnemonic symbol: 少 looks like a smiley face.

There's a food shortage (少) in the aorta, and Sherlock Holmes (sh) and Smiley (少) are looking for food in the living room (ao3). There's only one banana (丿) left. Soon they'll have to eat the many daisies (小) which are growing there.

少

shào = sh + ao4

young

火

huǒ = hu + o3

fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

火 = 人 + 丶 : Helga Horse (hu) and Neanderthal Man (人) are starting a fire (火) in the observatory's living room (o3) with two large petals (丶).