Elements This section just looks at some elements that many character have in common

Tops

These are elements that appear at the top of characters:-

1) "tóu" meaning lid; is Kangxi radical #8 What comes below is anyone's guess, but occasionally you'll see it above
"kŏu" for a mouth; which would give us "tou-kou".
Unfortunately kowtow for a deep bow (forehead to the ground) consists of different characters 叩头 "kòutóu".

Nevertheless this is about generating mnemonics and stories, and "tou-kou"can be warped into "Tucker", and Mr Tucker can get involved in various different schemes.

2) "mián" which means roof; is Kangxi radical #40. Could be adapted for use as in "me-and ..." or Myanmar

3) Then there's "zhú" which means bamboo or flute; is Kangxi radical #118. It consists of a pair of "gè" symbols

(The "gè" is an alternative for the ubiquitous "gè", meaning single, piece ) However, this J-type symbol is actually the dreaded "kwukyel" that you may have come across before. A "kwukyel" is apparently an old Korean hanja-based script for "hammer" (MDBG.net).

But the magic starts when this is squished up to the top of a character, as in děng when it starts to look remarkably like a pair of "A"s. I used to think it was, but the stroke order is downL-across-downR (or piě-héng-nà to be correct) not downL-downR-across.

Now in the UK, the "AA" is a motoring organisation, and that opens up a range of possibilities, (see story "Dundee") especially where in this instance where its got a "Tucson base".