"walk slowly" component in Chinese characters / see also 冬字頭|冬字头[dong1 zi4 tou2]
夂
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丿
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又
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Mnemonic symbol: In high heels, one can walk only slowly. James II of England (zh) is wearing high heels (夂) inside the space station's living room (Ø3). He's not only walking slowly (夂), he even slips on a banana (丿)! He's lucky to land on a boxing glove (又) though.
(once) again / also / both... and... / and yet / (used for emphasis) anyway
又
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㇇
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㇏
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And once again (又), Maud Younger (y) is preparing for battle. She's donning her boxing glove in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), puts on a beak (㇇) and plans go give her opponent the finger (㇏).
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-
后
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⺁
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𠮛
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Mnemonic symbol: Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra. Zenobia (后) and Hamlet (h) want to bake banana bread in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), but they don't know how. Behind (后) a banana tree (⺁) they study a scroll (𠮛) on which the recipe is written.
麦
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龶
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夂
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Mahatma Gandhi (m) is practising an exotic dance in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). For the dance he wears nothing but a fancy headdress (龶) and high heels (夂), and he is skilfully handling two fans made out of wheat (麦).
夅
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㐄
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夂
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Mnemonic symbol: 金星, the old fellow who descended twice from heaven to coax Sun Wukong to follow him to the heavenly court.
Some time ago Joan of Arc set up an antenna on top of the anglepod, but one day Jin Xing descended down from heaven to loudly complain about it. As he was walking in his high heels through the heavenly mists, he stumbled over the antenna and broke one of his high heels. He finds Joan of Arc in the anglepods bathroom, complains about the antenna and throws his broken high heel to her feet, before he finally ascends to the heavens again. Joan of Arc completely misunderstands the event and thinks that god sent her a messenger, assigning her her secret mission.
夋
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允
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夂
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Mnemonic symbol: someone with sick wuxia skills, because wuxia heroes fly fleet-footed. Cupid (qu) is practicing his wuxia (夋) skills in front of the Forbidden City ((e)n1). His speciality is his runny nose (允) of which he wields the snot gracefully leaving any enemy paralyzed in disgust. He is also wearing high heels (夂) while soaring through the air.
夆
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丰
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夂
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Frankenstein's Monster (f) practices defending engine's entrance ((e)ng2) from unruly visitors. He attached to high heels (夂) to his head to act like horns and practices butting (夆) a golden cage (丰).
to dawdle / the name of the father of the Emperor Yao
夌
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土
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八
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夂
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Li Qingzhao (li) and the father of emperor Yao (夌) are racing through engine's entrance ((e)ng2). During their race they have to wear high heels (夂) and walk over mud (土) and eight-balls (八).