百
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一
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白
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Mnemonic symbol: a one hundred 元 bill.
Beelzebub (b) enjoys preparing to allure mortals. In the airplane's living room (ai3) he's waving a flute (一) as a magic wand and enchanting one hundred white flags (白) to look like one hundred (百) one hundred 元 bills (百).
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.
white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera
白
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丶
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日
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Mnemonic symbol: a white flag. The sun (日) is waving with a white (白) flag (白) in the airplane's kitchen (ai2) while Beelzebub (b) is beating them with a big petal leaf (丶).
陌
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百
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阝
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Mahatma Gandhi (m) meets the pope (阝) in the observatory. In the bathroom (o4) he finds that's where the pope keeps all his money, The floor is covered waist-deep in 100 yuan bills (百) and there are raised paths (陌) so that you can still walk around and use the bathroom.
佰
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亻
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百
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Beelzebub (b) gives Rosa Luxemburg (亻) one hundred (佰) Mao Yeyes (百) in the airplane (ai3). Rosa checks for the anti counterfeit marks (佰), but Beelzebub's counterfeit skills are too advanced.
lit. after climbing a hundred feet up a pole, one should go even further (idiom) / fig. even if one has achieved a measure of success, one should strive to do even better