male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1] / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl
丁
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一
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亅
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Mnemonic symobl: a nail. 一 is the head of the nail and 亅 is the shaft. The point of the nail is already a bit bent.
Dorothy Gale (di) balances a flute (一) on a crowbar (亅) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). For this trick, she wins the fourth (丁) place in an artists competition and gets a quarter (丁) of a pizza as prize. Unfortunately, there is a big nail (mnemonic symbol for 丁) on the pizza slice.
巳
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乚
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口
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A snake. Socrates is terribly afraid of a snake in the space station's bathroom, and he tries to defend himself with a shovel. However the snake already ate a mandarin, and Sokrates is next.
to go and return / to return / to resume / to return to a normal or original state / to repeat / again / to recover / to restore / to turn over / to reply / to answer / to reply to a letter / to retaliate / to carry out
Frieda Fox (fu) and the sun (日) have to wear high heels (夂) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). The high heels are locked, and they only have one key (𠂉). They know that the key is very fragile and can only be used once, so they use a photocopier (复) to create more keys so that both of them can be freed.
復
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复
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彳
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Mnemonic symbol: a shrine of rejuvenation.
Frieda Fox (fu) only has an old photocopy (复) of her favorite black sneaker (彳). She restores (復) her sneakers to the original state by putting the old photocopy into the shrine of rejuvenation (復) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
辟
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尸
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口
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辛
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Mnemonic symbol from 辟邪, to ward of evil: a jade dragon, because this is what you get if you google image search 辟邪. Pocahontas (pi) stored some delicious kimchi (辛) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), and a ghost (尸) is trying to eat it all in one gulp. Pocahontas is prepared though and uses a jade dragon (辟) to fend off (辟) the ghost. She does throw a mandarin (口) to the desperate ghost though.