五谷

five crops, e.g. millet 粟[su4], soybean 豆[dou4], sesame 麻[ma2], barley 麥|麦[mai4], rice 稻[dao4] or other variants / all crops / all grains / oats, peas, beans and barley

Characters and words in 五谷

五

wǔ = w + Ø3

five / 5

Add a new mnemonic for 五 = 工 + 乛

Add a new mnemonic for 五 = 王 + 丨

五 = 王 + 丨 : Mnemonic symbol: a pentagram.

Martin Luther King (王) helps Willy Walrus (w) to construct a pentagram (五) out of dinosaur bones (丨) inside the space station (Ø3).

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五 = 工 + 乛 : Mnemonic symbol: a pentagram.

In the space station (Ø3), Willy Walrus (w) chops up a steel beam (工) with a sickle (乛) into five (五) equal parts. He uses the five parts to assemble a steel pentagram (五).

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谷

穀

gǔ = gu + Ø3

grain / corn

Add a new mnemonic for 谷 = 人 + 八 + 口

Add a new mnemonic for 穀 = 士 + 冖 + 禾 + 殳

谷 = 人 + 八 + 口 : Mnemonic symbol: popcorn.

Gitta Giraffe (gu) conducts an experiment in the space station's living room (Ø3). She shows Neanderthal Man (人) three things: a mandarin (口), popcorn (谷), and an eight-ball (八), and records how much he likes to eat each of these. Neanderthal Man thinks that the eight-ball is a little crunchy.

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