Mnemonic comic for 刀
Translation
Mnemonic
Mnemonic symbol: 刀 looks like a cleaver (while 刂 looks like a kitchen knife). Don Quixote (d) serves his good deed of the day in front of the aorta (ao1). In order to feed the people, he uses a plow (㇆) to dig up bananas (丿), and cuts them into slices with a broad cleaver (刀).
Comments
Giving Stable Diffusion another try! And it's sooo ridiculous!! I love it!
Stable Diffusion has no idea what a plow looks like, and it also doesn't know very well who the heck Don Quixote is. I could live with that, but oh man, three legs??? Also, it was impossible to get banana slices. Well, the panels are ridiculous enough to remember them, so I'll take it.
Matthias, 10 months ago
刀 character breakdown
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]
Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).
Character component without intrinsic meaning
Characters with 刀 as component
that / those / then (in that case) / commonly pr. [nei4] before a classifier, esp. in Beijing
roof beam / beam (structure) / bridge
梁
=
氵
+
八
+
刀
+
木
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Li Qingzhao (li) wants to repair the anglepod's kitchen (ang2), specifically, she wants to set up a new beam on the roof (梁). To reach her goal she puts the lower end of a Christmas tree (木) into a broad water bottle (氵) so that it stands steady. She then proceeds to chop off all the branches with a cleaver (刀), so she can obtain the beam. As she lifts the beam onto the walls, she pushes off an eight ball (八), which falls down and crashes the water bottle (氵). Fortunately she won't need the water bottle anymore since she already put up the beam of the new roof (梁).
at first / (at the) beginning / first / junior / basic
edge of blade
Character component without intrinsic meaning
Character component without intrinsic meaning
Words with 刀
lit. two segments with a single cut (idiom) / fig. to make a clean break (idiom)
lit. knifes piercing both sides (idiom) / fig. to attach a great importance to friendship, up to the point of being able to sacrifice oneself for it
lit. to cut all at one stroke (idiom); to impose uniformity / one solution fits a diversity of problems / one size fits all
two-faced, three knives (idiom); double-cross / double dealing and back stabbing
lit. to climb mountains of swords and enter seas of flames (idiom) / fig. to go through trials and tribulations (often, for a noble cause)
a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study (idiom)
lit. to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom) / fig. to be at sb's mercy
lit. to climb mountains of swords and enter cauldrons of boiling oil (idiom) / fig. to go through trials and tribulations
to lend sb a knife to kill sb / to get sb else to do one's dirty work / to attack using the strength of another (idiom)