to wash / to squander / to sweep away / to move / to shake / dissolute / pond
荡
=
艹
+
汤
:
Don Quixote (d) messed up his artificial lawn (艹) with soup (汤) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). After washing (荡) and shaking (荡) the lawn he checks with an oscilloscope (荡) to see if there are still soup particles left on the lawn.
mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable
山
=
丨
+
凵
:
Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.