Mnemonic comic for 土
Translation
Mnemonic
Tommy Turtle (tu) wants to fix a cross (十) on a flute (一) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He uses dust and clay (土) to hold them together.
All translations for 土
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
土 character breakdown
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
Characters with 土 as component
(main) hall / large room for a specific purpose / CL:間|间[jian1] / relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family / of the same clan / classifier for classes, lectures etc / classifier for sets of furniture
black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal / to hide (sth) away / to vilify / (loanword) to hack (computing)
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灬
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Mnemonic symbol: a black board.
Hamlet received his order of aloe vera in front of the Eiffel Tower. There he stands with his big wooden box full of aloe vera plants. On his blackboard he sketched his business model: He wants to plant the aloe vera with a lot of earth in front of the Eiffel Tower, grill it and sell it to the Eiffel Tower's visitors.
Hamlet received his order of aloe vera in front of the Eiffel Tower. There he stands with his big wooden box full of aloe vera plants. On his blackboard he sketched his business model: He wants to plant the aloe vera with a lot of earth in front of the Eiffel Tower, grill it and sell it to the Eiffel Tower's visitors.
abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]
黑
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囗
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⺌
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土
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灬
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Mnemonic symbol: a black board.
Hamlet received his order of aloe vera in front of the Eiffel Tower. There he stands with his big wooden box full of aloe vera plants. On his blackboard he sketched his business model: He wants to plant the aloe vera with a lot of earth in front of the Eiffel Tower, grill it and sell it to the Eiffel Tower's visitors.
Hamlet received his order of aloe vera in front of the Eiffel Tower. There he stands with his big wooden box full of aloe vera plants. On his blackboard he sketched his business model: He wants to plant the aloe vera with a lot of earth in front of the Eiffel Tower, grill it and sell it to the Eiffel Tower's visitors.
ink stick / China ink / CL:塊|块[kuai4] / corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead
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Mahatma Gandhi (m) is using his creativity to write a new protester's placard in the observatory's bathroom (o4). he fixed an ink stick (墨) to his head and writes on a blackboard (黑). Later he tries to use dirt (土) to clean his head, but he'll find that it won't work and some dirty words have been tattooed to his forehead (墨).
surname Mo / abbr. for 墨西哥[Mo4 xi1 ge1], Mexico
墨
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土
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黑
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Mahatma Gandhi (m) is using his creativity to write a new protester's placard in the observatory's bathroom (o4). he fixed an ink stick (墨) to his head and writes on a blackboard (黑). Later he tries to use dirt (土) to clean his head, but he'll find that it won't work and some dirty words have been tattooed to his forehead (墨).
to press / to push down / to keep under (control) / pressure
Words with 土
sliced bread (loanword from "toast") / government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
country bumpkin / boor / unsophisticated country person (humble, applied to oneself) / burial mound
(coll.) commie (derog., used by the KMT) / CCP, the party of the people (used by CCP supporters) / pro-Beijing camp (HK) / (abbr.) Communist Party of Turkey / Communist Party of Turkmenistan