dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder
Guy Fawkes (g) is drying (干) his clothes in front of the anthill (an1). He hangs them on a large construction made from a cross (十) and a flute (一). Waiting for his clothes to dry, he snacks dried fruit (mnemonic symbol for 干).
果
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木
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田
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Gitta Giraffe (gu) is not feeling well inside observatory (o3) and decides to eat healthy. To plant a field (田), she first distributes Christmas trees (木) as manure, then puts a field on it and finally plants grapevines. Soon she will be eating grapes (果) and feel better.