to climb (by pulling oneself up) / to implicate / to claim connections of higher status
攀
=
手
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樊
:
Pinocchio (p) is playing catch with a friend in front of the anthill (an1). Although he has a very large baseball glove (手), the last throw was way too high for him: the ball landed on top of a cage (樊) standing in front of the anthill. Pinocchio will have to climb (攀) on the cage to retrieve the ball.
hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
Mnemonic symbol: a baseball glove. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is trying out his new baseball glove (手) in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
樊
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大
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棥
:
During his escape Frankenstein's Monster (f) got caught by a mean robot (大) which locks him in a cage (樊) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). The cage is hidden in a small forest (棥), so the robot cannot see him perform a magic ritual: Frankenstein's Monster draws the lines of special trigrams (棥) on the floor and thereby opens a portal to the outside world.
樊
=
大
+
棥
:
During his escape Frankenstein's Monster (f) got caught by a mean robot (大) which locks him in a cage (樊) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). The cage is hidden in a small forest (棥), so the robot cannot see him perform a magic ritual: Frankenstein's Monster draws the lines of special trigrams (棥) on the floor and thereby opens a portal to the outside world.