white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera
白
=
丶
+
日
:
Mnemonic symbol: a white flag. The sun (日) is waving with a white (白) flag (白) in the airplane's kitchen (ai2) while Beelzebub (b) is beating them with a big petal leaf (丶).
岂
=
山
+
己
:
Instead of doing experiments the Queen of Hearts (qi) is idly playing with a fork (山) and a butcher's hook (己) in the space station (Ø3). The people at ground control keep asking the same question: how can this be (岂有此理)?