Here are some words from my Chinese session today

Character	Chinese	Translation	Mem
蛋	Dan4	Bug	A bug in a fabric, like the yolk in a shell of an egg
反	fan3	To rebel	Imagine a hand (又 yòu) crushing a factory. This is when you start to rebell (反 fǎn)
艹	Cao3_r140	Grass	Two grass straws growing up from the earth (土 tu3). Half in the earth and half over the earth.
爫	Zhao3_r87	Small_hand	Picture of a small hand reaching down
采	Cai3	To pick	A 爫 hand reaching to pick fruit from a 木 tree
菜	Cao3_r140	Vegetable	On a grass 艹 height, you pick 采, vegetables 菜
饺	Jiao3	Dumpling	Food 饣, joined 交, to create a dumpling 饺. The character 交 means both join and exchange.
饺子	Jiao3zi	Dumplings	To illustrate many as in the dumplingS, you add a suffix zi (child 子). Since in the old china there were indeed many children.