丂, a twisty water weed

丂 is 表外漢字 which, per Henshall, is a twisty water weed under the surface (the top line).

朽, decay:        A plant under the water with the twisty weed will soon decay.
巧, ingenuity:  My mind, turned to technical things エ, is deep and complicated like
                            that water weed.
号, number:     Our worker found a phone (to me this 漢字 looks like a dial with a
                            receiver beneath), dialed a number, and escaped!  (This one's easier
                            for me because it's part of 電話番号, phone number.)
考, think over:  This to me is like a person or worker 者, except he's like that water
                            weed -- he's thinking over how to do things.
拷, torture:       Uh-oh.  Someone's raising a hand to him.  "Think!  Remember the
                             information I want!"
誇, boast:        "To hear him talk, he's a big man who can walk on water.  But notice
                            that surfboard he's actually standing on!"

朽巧号考拷誇

バックパッキング旅行 with 尺

Although 尺 means hand's-breadth (I think I can see the palm and fingers), Henshall suggests thinking of it as a backpack.  This helps make a coherent story for mnemonics.

昼, noonish:   After sunrise, I backpack till around noon.
沢, swamp:    On my backpacking trip, I came to a wet swamp.
訳, translate:  On my backpacking trip (in a foreign land), I often had to translate words.
釈, explain:   "Sir, explain why you're smuggling rice stalks in your backpack."
択, choose:    I use my hand to choose something from my backpack.
尽, exhaust:   I'm so exhausted I'm dropping things out of my backpack.
駅, station:     In this case, I think of 尺 as looking like a hitching post,
                           the station where I tie my horse. A good place to rest for
                           the night.  Story ends.

昼沢訳釈択尽駅

官: 映画館、図書館、音楽、と死亡

官 is bureaucrat:  someone with a big head, sitting under a roof, with a big, well, you know muscles get bigger when you exercise them and he exercises his sitting muscles a lot.  Just sayin'.

館, public building:  It may be a government building or it may have food.
管, pipe:                   When he has a moment, the bureaucrat likes to practice his
                                 bamboo flute.
棺, coffin:                 It's made of wood and one day the bureaucrat, like the rest
                                 of us, will go into one.

官館管棺

What's 次

次 つぐ, next, is common enough.  I don't know why you put ice 冫together with a hole 欠 and get next, but so be it.

This set of 漢字の物語 feature various agents:  a playboy, a consultant, a grazing animal, a banker, and a thief.

姿, figure/shape:           A woman has a figure, but so does the next.
恣, selfish/arbitrary:      ...or so thinks the selfish man:  it's arbitrary -- one's much like the next
諮, consult/deliberate:  Words in which one mouth speaks, then the next.
茨, thorn/briar:              The thorns tell the grazing animal:  skip this bush and go on to the next.
資, capital/resources:    Capital is a commodity -- one piece of money is just like the next.
盗, steal:                       The next thing to do is steal a plate.

次姿恣諮茨資,盗

場s to go

昜 is 表外漢字, and I find it more useful to base everything on either 場 (place) or 湯 (hot water/hot spring). so:

場, place:                  an earthen spot where the sun shines over, oh, maybe a bank
                                 with trailing weeds, IDK.
陽, daytime/male     Sun shining in daytime over the hills at that special spot.
/yang principle:        I'm guessing that identifies it with the yang principle which
                                 symbolizes male.
湯, hot water/spring:  This spot is all about the water:  it's a hot spring.
腸, intestines:          People come to the hot spring to cure their ailments.  Some
                                of which may be gut-related.
揚, elevate:             And Christ reaches out his hand and says to the sick person,
                                you're healed -- get up!

場陽湯腸揚

育てる your children well

育てる（そだてる）means raise (children), train, foster.  This was a tough one to make mnemonic for.  I think of it as a hanger dangling a piece of 肉.  Maybe we're raising tiger babies.

徹, penetrate/pierce:  You'd better have a stick in hand 攵. or the baby tigers waiting
                                     at the crossroads 彳will have some piercing insights into... you.

撤, remove:                The safest thing is to use your 手 to remove the 肉 from that
                                     hook, still keeping stick in hand 攵.

育徹撤

旦 and what comes later

旦, early morning.      Yep, that's the sun coming over the horizon.
但, however/but:          A person sees the sunrise and says,
                                      "But...but...I was SLEEPING!"
胆, courage/nerve/gall bladder:  The part of human nature that sticks up for things
担 shouldering/carry:  Put your hand to something, pick it UP and carry it
揚, elevate:                 Take someone by the hand who's waiting at the 湯 hot spring
                                      water.  "Do you want to be well?  Get up and walk!"*
宣, proclaim:              Under that same roof we saw at the podium, proclaim what's in range of your topic
恒, constancy:           The feeling of staying in between, not going out of range.

亘range/span:            Sun shining between two borders.
垣 hedge:                   Separate earthy areas between hedges.
壇, podium:               See the samurai getting ready to speak at a podium (well, it
                                     looks like one to me.  I think that thing in the middle is a TV.)

*I don't think this one belongs here, but rather with the 昜 family, but I got confused and put it in this set instead.  No wonder I'm having a rough time remembering it.  I'll move this later if I remember.


旦但胆担揚宣恒亘垣 壇