Radical 亠

4 strokes

lid 亠 (25b) + eight 八 (20) = six 六

The fact that there are two dwarves tells you that the “lo” sound (from the soundword) is pronounced “lyo”.

This completes the numbers from one to ten. We have story substitutes (the unicorn, octopus, etc.) for some of the numbers (1, 2, 5, 7, 8 and 9). Since the characters for 3, 4 and 6 don’t appear as a part of other characters, we don’t need story substitutes for them.

[六十 (4) liùshí sixty]

[十六 (4) shíliù sixteen]

The octopus is trying to lift the lid of a huge cooking pot — he has to use six of his legs (leaving only two to stand on!) / Two dwarves arrive carrying a huge locust to put in the pot.