蹈

dǎo = d + ao3

to tread on / to trample / to stamp / to fulfill / Taiwan pr. [dao4]

蹈 = ⻊ + 舀 : Don Quixote (d) is trampling (蹈) through the aorta (ao3) practicing a folk dance (蹈) in his cowboy boots (⻊), but he finds there is a small stone in one of his boots and he has to scoop it out (舀) before he can continue.

蹈 character breakdown

蹈
- 舀
  - 爫
    - 丿
    - ⺍
      - 小
        
        亅
        
        八
        
        丿
        
        ㇏
  - 臼
- 足
  - 口
  - 龰
    - 人
      - 丿
      - ㇏
    - ⺊
      - 一
      - 丨
- ⻊
  - 口
  - 止
    - 一
    - 上
      - 一
      - 丨
      - 二
        
        一
      - ⺊
        
        一
        
        丨
      - 丄
        
        一
        
        丨
    - 丨
    - ⺊
      - 一
      - 丨
    - 丄
      - 一
      - 丨

舀

yǎo = y + ao3

to ladle out / to scoop up

舀 = 爫 + 臼 : In the aorta (ao3), Maud Younger (y) dropped her electric razor (爫) into her mortar (臼) and now she has to scoop it out (舀).

足

jù = ju + Ø4

excessive

足

zú = zu + Ø2

foot / to be sufficient / ample

足 = 龰 + 口 : Mnemonic symbol: a football. Zapatista Zebra (zu) wants to pimp his football (足) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He thinks that a few more vitamins wouldn't hurt, so he extracts the vitamins from a mandarin (口) with a syringe (龰) to inject them into his football.

⻊

Character component without intrinsic meaning

⻊ = 口 + 止 : Mnemonic symbol: A big, left cowboy boot with spurs and everything. Zapatista Zebra (zu) wants to enter the space station's kitchen (), but he is hold up at the barrier (止). The spurs at his cowboy boot (⻊) are not safe enough, so he has to stick a mandarin (口) on it to make them safe.