Kanji are quite abstract, but sometimes you can find images that closely match the shape (and sometimes also the meaning). Post your pictures, with a caption if the meaning doesn’t match!
The lid at the top and the cross at the bottom, I have always seen as a (vertical) trash compactor enclosure. The name is of course taken from this famous scene in Star Wars. And look! There’s people in it too!
The meaning doesn’t fit, but it fits pretty well with the above mentioned 率 (you squeeze and squeeze then whatever is in there explodes and disgusting gooey stuff comes out and you have reduced the size some percent)… but then there’s no people in there
To me 五 (Five) looks like the number 6 on fire.This is how I saw it the first time I saw it and how I still remember it, which is frustrating because 6 != 5.
I can remember it as five because it has five distinct lines (albeit with four strokes…)