I always had trouble telling the difference between Instruction 訓 and Obey 順. All I knew was they both had the common 'stream' radical. Later on I figured a story where the Instruction of Words flowed out like a Stream into the Head of the subject, who Obeys them. And in imagining watching this happen from the side with the Instructor on the left, I had some way of telling the difference between the two. Dodgy, I know... but it worked well for me in this example.

I was wondering if anyone else did something like that or if someone else who has gone further then me reckons it's a really Bad Idea.