索
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十
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冖
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糸
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Somebody destroyed Susan Saint Bernards (su) web in the observatory (o3) and as a revenge Susan Saint Bernard put all the castle's food in a container, put a cooking top on it (冖) and then sealed it with a silken scarf (糸). Then she attached a cross (十) to be used as hook and hang the package right under the ceiling using a large rope (索). Everyone is sorry and asks (索) her to give the food back, but Susan Saint Bernard is still quite angry.
索
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十
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冖
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糸
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Somebody destroyed Susan Saint Bernards (su) web in the observatory (o3) and as a revenge Susan Saint Bernard put all the castle's food in a container, put a cooking top on it (冖) and then sealed it with a silken scarf (糸). Then she attached a cross (十) to be used as hook and hang the package right under the ceiling using a large rope (索). Everyone is sorry and asks (索) her to give the food back, but Susan Saint Bernard is still quite angry.
"cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14), occurring in 軍|军[jun1], 冠[guan1] etc, known as 禿寶蓋|秃宝盖[tu1 bao3 gai4] or 平寶蓋|平宝盖[ping2 bao3 gai4]
Mnemonic symbol: 冖 shall be represented by a saucepan lid. Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to use the bathroom in the space station (Ø4), but the door is broken! She tries to cover herself with a saucepan lid (冖) instead.
十
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一
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丨
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Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).
糸
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小
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幺
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In the space station's bathroom, Marilyn Monroe uses zero gravity to fulfill her lifelong dream of flying on a carpet like Aladdin. In the space station she doesn't have a carpet, but she has a large ace on which she sits. She uses a silken scarf as a turban, and she holds a daisy in her hand as magic wand.
嗦
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口
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索
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Susan Saint Bernard (su) set up a large net made of ropes (索) in front of the observatory (o1) to catch mandarins (口). When she catches a mandarin with a rope she pulls it towards her and sucks (嗦) the life out of the mandarin.