吏

lì = li + Ø4

minor government official or functionary (old)

吏 = 丈 + 口 : Li Qingzhao finds the space station's clerk making out with Bigfoot in the bathroom, and she's pretty jealous, so she throws mandarins at them to disturb them.

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吏 character breakdown

吏
- 丈
  - 一
  - 乂
    - 丿
    - ㇏
- 口

丈

zhàng = zh + ang4

measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male

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丈 = 一 + 乂 : Mnemonic symbol: ten feet are about 3 meters, so let's say Bigfoot. Nice side effect: that way it's easier to remember 丈夫 = husband (if your husband looks like Bigfoot). The ten feet tall Bigfoot (丈) just left the anglepod's bathroom (ang4), and he left something that looks like a big flute (一). James II of England (zh) needs to move it out of the way, but he'll touch it only with pliers (丈).

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口

kǒu = k + ou3

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

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Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

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Characters with 吏 as component

使

shǐ = sh + Ø3

to make / to cause / to enable / to use / to employ / to send / to instruct sb to do sth / envoy / messenger

Add a new mnemonic for 使 = 亻 + 吏

使 = 亻 + 吏 : Sherlock Holmes, Rosa Luxemburg and the space station's clerk play a simultaneous game of rock paper scissors in the space station, as they have to decide who will be sent as a messenger back to earth to admit that they need another 3 000 000 000 $ funding.

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