to lift / to raise / to raise one's head / high / high spirits / soaring / expensive
昂
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卬
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日
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Erich Honecker (卬) lifts (昂) the sun (日) right over the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). To reach up high enough, he in turn is lifted up (昂) by Albert Einstein (Ø).
mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable
山
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丨
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凵
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Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.