You might remember the meaning of the character 液 with this easy mnemonic:
I feel droplets (氵) of liquid on my face every morning because my wife doesn't put the lid (亠) on her smoothie blender! Usually, I poke her with my staff (亻) and tell her to make her smoothie in the evening (夕) instead.
Using mnemonics to remember the meaning of Chinese characters like has a huge impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.