one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
to live / to dwell / to stay / to reside / to stop / (suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt)
住
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主
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亻
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Julian Giant Squid (zhu), Rosa Luxemburg (亻) and the Lord (主) are all living (住) together in a flat share in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
to go forward / to advance / to go in / to enter / to put in / to submit / to take in / to admit / (math.) base of a number system / classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
进
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井
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辶
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Joan of Arc fell into a well after she entered the encampment's bathroom, but luckily one of her gladiator sandals got stuck on one toilet, so now she can use the string to climb out of the well.
to preserve / to maintain / to hold together / dimension / vitamin (abbr. for 維生素|维生素[wei2 sheng1 su4])
维
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纟
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隹
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In the Eiffel Tower's kitchen a sparrow spots a tasty little silk worm family. The silk worm family is lucky enough to have Willy Walrus personally as their wild life protector.
abbr. for Uighur 維吾爾|维吾尔[Wei2 wu2 er3] / surname Wei
维
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纟
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隹
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In the Eiffel Tower's kitchen a sparrow spots a tasty little silk worm family. The silk worm family is lucky enough to have Willy Walrus personally as their wild life protector.
to leave / to part from / to be away from / (in giving distances) from / without (sth) / independent of / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire / ☲
离
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亠
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凶
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禸
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Li Qingzhao is about to leave the space station. As a souvenir she put her beret in the space station's centrifuge and got a demon mask out. Angrily she tramples on the demon mask because what she wanted was a nice and modern hat.
离
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亠
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凶
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禸
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Mnemonic symbol: from 离心机 or 离心分离机, a centrifuge.
翟
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羽
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隹
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Dorothy Gale (di) helps the sparrow (隹) to put on a costume in the space station's entrance (Ø2). She attaches very long feathers (羽) to the sparrows tail so that he looks like a long-tail pheasant (翟).
翟
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羽
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隹
:
In the airplane's kitchen (ai2) James II of England (zh) gives a present to Herbert Allen Giles (翟) for his contributions to the Wade-Giles system, a long-tail pheasant. As Herbert receives the bird he finds that it is just a sparrow (隹) with long feathers (羽) attached.
雚
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艹
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口
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隹
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The heron (雚) and the sparrow (隹) made a very copy nest for their offspring in the anthill's bathroom (an4). They build a base out of artificial lawn (艹) and decorated it with some mandarins (口) to feed their babies. Their nest is so high that only Gitta Giraffe (gu) can have a look inside because she is so tall.
崔
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山
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隹
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Kitty Cat (cu) is hunting the sparrow (隹) in front of the Eiffel Tower (ei1) with a fork (山), but the sparrow feels to the top of a high, precipitous, snow-covered mountain (崔).
崔
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山
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隹
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Kitty Cat (cu) is hunting the sparrow (隹) in front of the Eiffel Tower (ei1) with a fork (山), but the sparrow feels to the top of a high, precipitous, snow-covered mountain (崔).
隽
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乃
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隹
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Mnemonic symbol: to do a meaningful job like working with disabled people or the elderly.
The poltergeist (乃) decided to change his life by switching to a meaningful (隽) job. Nowadays he is helping people like Zeus (ju) to drive out the sparrows (隹) out of the anthill's bathroom (an4) by scaring them away.
隽
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乃
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隹
:
Mnemonic symbol: to do a meaningful job like working with disabled people or the elderly.
The poltergeist (乃) decided to change his life by switching to a meaningful (隽) job. Nowadays he is helping people like Zeus (ju) to drive out the sparrows (隹) out of the anthill's bathroom (an4) by scaring them away.