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The hiker points at the crack-like opening between the clouds.

Imagine the blue opening between the clouds as a crack running through the sky. The hiker points right at it. 裂缝 (liè fèng) means a crack or fissure.

Two thorny durian husks are arranged as an empty pair of slippers. Imagine how uncomfortable they would be to wear. This strange pairing helps you remember 拖鞋 (tuō xié): slipper.

A duck (鸭, yā) leans on a big button to press it. In Chinese, 鸭 (duck) and 压 (press) both sound like yā, so the duck helps you remember 压 (yā).

想象宇航员漂浮在月亮旁的黑色太空里，手拿喷漆罐划出一条黄色弧线，记住 SPACE = 太空 (tài kōng)。

小动物站在木栏杆上，认真把一只比自己还大的水壶倒向花盆。看到这个画面，就记住“浇水”是 jiāo shuǐ。

A turtle has two wheels but is still visibly slow; the absurd mismatch makes 慢 memorable.

把手 means a grasping hand: the handmade ceramic bottle has two oversized loop handles that look like arms and hands.

把手 means a grasping hand. This handmade ceramic bottle has two oversized loop handles that look like arms and hands. 把手 is bǎ shǒu.

这朵蘑菇本来就像一把伞，却还认真撑着一把真正的伞，给自己的伞盖挡雨。把“雨伞”记成 yǔ sǎn。

Two elephants face one another and lift their trunks into a small heart: the pair helps learners remember 对象.

No Tom in sight, but you know he has been here: the rock is split open beside the tree.

Same uniform, same desk, same pose. Even their napping is 整齐: neat and uniform.

整齐 (zhěng qí) means neat, tidy or uniform: things lined up evenly, or people doing the same thing in the same way. The drawing says “Identical,” which is close to the idea but not the usual translation. For “identical,” say 一模一样 (yì mú yí yàng).

房间很整齐。 — Fángjiān hěn zhěngqí. — The room is neat.

他们的动作很整齐。 — Tāmen de dòngzuò hěn zhěngqí. — Their movements are perfectly in sync.

Someone is lying flat on the sofa with their head under a glass table, watching the phone that rests on the glass above their face. That flat-out position is 躺.

躺 (tǎng) means to lie, as in lying on your back or your side. It is about body position and has nothing to do with telling a lie. 躺下 (tǎng xià) means to lie down.

我想躺一会儿。 — Wǒ xiǎng tǎng yíhuìr. — I want to lie down for a while.

他躺在沙发上。 — Tā tǎng zài shāfā shang. — He is lying on the sofa.

Everyone is straining on the rope except the one humming a tune with her eyes closed. She is 偷懒: slacking off while the others do the work.

偷懒 (tōu lǎn) means to slack off: to be lazy about a job you are supposed to be doing. Literally, 偷 is “on the sly” and 懒 is “lazy.” 懒 (lǎn) on its own describes a lazy person; 偷懒 describes the act.

别偷懒！ — Bié tōulǎn! — Don’t slack off!

他又在偷懒。 — Tā yòu zài tōulǎn. — He is slacking off again.