according to / to act in accordance with / to depend on / to seize / to occupy
据
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居
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扌
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Zeus (ju) wants to use the toilet in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but it is occupied (据) by a hermite crab (居) which states that the toilet is its new home and cannot be used anymore. Consequently Zeus seizes (据) the crab by using a toy claw (扌) with which he pulls the hermite crab out of the toilet.
real / true / honest / really / solid / fruit / seed / definitely
实
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头
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宀
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Sherlock Holmes welcomes professor Skull just inside the entrance of the space station. Professor Skull has not a complete head but only a skull, and a solid understanding of solid state physics. She really is an honest person and still wears her graduation cap.
㠯
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尸
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口
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Mnemonic symbol: 㠯 looks like a cool pair of safety goggles.
A ghost (尸) has been hiding from Maud Younger (Ø3) in a mandarin (口). Maud finds the mandarin in the space station's living room (Ø3) and squeezes the ghost out, and in order to (㠯) be protected from the mandarin juice flying all around in zero gravity she is wearing safety goggles (㠯).
to use / by means of / according to / in order to / because of / at (a certain date or place)
以
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人
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厶
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So this is Neanderthal Man with a fake nose. He has bushy eyebrows, so my symbol for 以 is going to be one of these fake noses that come with additional glasses, eyebrows, and a moustache: Groucho glasses.
以
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人
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厶
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Maud Younger and Neanderthal Man prepared some costumes for Halloween in the space station. Neanderthal Man created a big fake nose, while Maud Younger made a pair of Groucho glasses.
to say / to tell / to announce / to report / to denounce / to file a lawsuit / to sue
告
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⺧
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口
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Guy Fawkes is informing the golden calf that it is not allowed to eat mandarins any more in the aorta's bathroom by pointing at a big LED screen stating so.
告
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⺧
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口
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Mnemonic symbol: one of these LED panels with public announcements which scroll horizontally over the panel.