盒
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合
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皿
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Hamlet (h) is having a lunch break in the elevator's kitchen (e2) and pulls out his lunch box (盒). He's exited what will be inside this time. He prepares a shallow container (皿) and turns his lunch box upside down over it, but only a tube of glue (合) comes out and falls on his plate.
within / among / in / middle / center / while (doing sth) / during / (dialect) OK / all right
中
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丨
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口
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Mnemonic symbol: a dart board, because you always try to hit the center.
Julian Giant Squid (zhu-) is throwing dinosaur bones (丨) as darts on a dart board in front of the engine ((e)ng1). To make it a bit more difficult he's throwing mandarins (口) into the air as well and skewers them up right in the center (中 is a mandarin skewered on a dinosaur bone) in mid flight with the dinosaur bones. He's still able to consistently hit the center (中) of the dart board.
袋
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代
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衣
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Don Quixote (d) put his kilt (衣) in the washing mashine in the airplane's bathroom (ai4), and now he needs a token (代) to open it. Unfortunately as he is looking through the washing machine's window he remembers that he left the token in his kilt's pocket (袋).