prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough
老
=
⺹
+
匕
:
Lancelot (l) is showing his respect to grandpa (老) in the aorta's living room (ao3). He's bowing deep and offering a crown (⺹), but grandpa refuses by hitting Lancelot on the head with a ladle (匕).
王
=
一
+
土
:
Mnemonic symbol: Martin Luther King. Willy Walrus (wu) is stuck in a heap of dirt (土) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). Martin Luther King (王) helps him by holding out a flute (一).
卖
=
十
+
㇖
+
头
:
Mahatma Gandhi (m) wants to get rid of his worldly possessions and sets up a flea market in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). He displays a cross (十), a sickle (㇖) and a skull (头) which he wants to sell (卖), so he attached price tags to all of them.
瓜
=
⺁
+
厶
+
㇏
:
Gitta Giraffe (gu) inspects the banana trees (⺁) in front of the ashram (a1) every day. One day, she found a very strange banana: she looked at it, and it looked like a melon (瓜). She then poked it with her finger (㇏). It felt like a melon! She then sniffed at it with her fake nose (厶). The banana smelled like a melon (瓜)! What a strange banana, Gitta thought to herself.
自
=
丶
+
目
:
Mnemonic symbol: a hand mirror, which someone uses to look at themselves.
The Eye of Providence (目) is looking at itself (自) in a handheld mirror (自) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). It think it's indeed looking very good, since Zorro (z) attached a petal (丶) to its eye (目).
Karl Koala (ku) caught a lucky leprechaun (亏) for his friend the robot (大) and is allowed to have a wish in front of the ashram (a1). He wishes for enough quarks (夸) to build a quantum computer brain for the robot, which the leprechaun fulfills. As soon as it is done the robot starts to solve complicated mathematical problems, and Karl praises (夸) it.