to use / to employ / to have to / to eat or drink / expense or outlay / usefulness / hence / therefore
用
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丨
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月
:
Mnemonic symbol: a first aid kit. Can you see the cross on the container?
用
=
丨
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月
:
Yu the Great hurt her leg when she slipped in the engine's bathroom. The moon helps her to splint her leg using the bathroom's first aid kit and a dinosaur bone.
武
=
一
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弋
+
止
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Inside of the space station Willy Walrus sits in a tank and guards the space station. The tank is parked behind a barrier, and Willy has a bow at his side. There's nothing to do though, so he just plays his flute.
武
=
一
+
弋
+
止
:
Inside of the space station Willy Walrus sits in a tank and guards the space station. The tank is parked behind a barrier, and Willy has a bow at his side. There's nothing to do though, so he just plays his flute.
(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]) / him / her / it
之
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丶
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Z
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Mnemonic symbol: Sooo sleepy... "zZz" (the character looks like a "Z"). James II of England (zh) fell asleep in front of the space station (Ø1). He sleeps on a big petal leaf (丶), making loud "zZz" (之) sounds.
earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:片[pian4]
地
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也
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土
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Dorothy Gale (di) hates the cleanliness of the space station, so she used an excavator (也) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) to dig a pile of dirt (土) out of the ground (地) for a mud bath.