history / annals / title of an official historian in ancient China
史
=
口
+
乂
:
For a mission in the space station (Ø3) Sherlock Holmes (sh) has to find out the history (史) of a mandarin (口), so with a pair of pliers (乂) he took to the space station he squeezes the mandarin like an orange.
book / letter / document / CL:本[ben3],冊|册[ce4],部[bu4] / to write
书
=
丨
+
㇆
+
丶
:
Sheldon Shrimp (shu) is enjoying a good book (书) in front of the space station (Ø1). Because he is lazy, he built a thingy to hold the pages in place with a dinosaur bone (丨) and two plows (㇆). He is laying very comfortable on a petal (丶) serving as sofa.
