Mnemonic comic for

Translation

da̅o = d + ao1: knife / blade / single-edged sword / cutlass / CL:把[ba3] / (slang) dollar (loanword) / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs

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

= + : Mnemonic symbol: ㇆ just looks like a plow.

Someone attached a flute to the top of a crowbar to create a new instrument. When the crowbar is bowed with a plow, the vibrations of the crowbar will transfer to the flute, which in turn is producing eerie sounds.

Characters with 刀 as component

clown / 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox / ancient Chinese compass point: 30°

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) finds a very ugly (丑) ox (丑) in the outhouse (ou3) and decides to destroy it with a cleaver (刀) because it is so ugly. He'll soon notice that the ox has been hooked up to a charged capacitor (二) so that anyone trying to damage it will be shocked.
shameful / ugly / disgraceful
to call together / to summon / to convene / temple or monastery (used in place names in Inner Mongolia)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: an intercom to call everyone together. James II of England (zh) prepares a few mandarins (口) for everyone in the aorta's bathroom (ao4) by cutting them with a cleaver (刀). As he is finished he calls all the blood platelets together (召) over the intercom (召) to come over and fetch a piece.
surname Shao / name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Province
garrulous

= + : Don Quixote (d) is chopping up a mandarin (口) with a cleaver (刀) in front of the aorta (ao1), but because he is chatting (叨) so much he doesn't pay attention and chops off his fingers.
to receive the benefit of
part / share / ingredient / component
to divide; to separate / to distribute; to allocate / to distinguish (good and bad) / (bound form) branch of (an organization); sub- (as in 分局[fen1 ju2]) / fraction / one tenth (of certain units) / unit of length equivalent to 0.33 cm / minute (unit of time) / minute (angular measurement unit) / a point (in sports or games) / 0.01 yuan (unit of money)

= + : Symbol for this character: A stopwatch (from the meaning "minute"). Frankenstein's monster participates in the annual championship of chopping eightballs in front of the encampment. Using a cleaver, he chops as many eightballs as he can in one minute.
definitely / absolutely (not) / (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right. / Tut! / to grind / close to / eager / to correspond to / see also 反切[fan3 qie4]
to cut / to slice / tangent (math)

= + : The Queen of Hearts is ready to cut and slice anything and anybody: She's holding a seven-branched laser sword and a cleaver in her hands in front of the elevator.
bond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half) / contract / deed (i.e. title deeds) / ticket / voucher / certificate

= + : Cupid (qu) and the angel (关) found a special bond (券) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). They divide it using a cleaver (刀) and each of them gets one half of the document (券).

Words with 刀

(of a surgeon) to perform an operation / (of a patient) to have an operation / to decapitate / to behead / to single out as a point of attack
sickle / curved blade to cut grain
to hack (sb) to pieces (punishment in former times)
steel knife / sword
lever-style guillotine (for chopping fodder etc)
saber / cavalry sword
the hammer and sickle (flag of USSR, symbolizing rural and proletarian labor)
lit. to wield the broadsword in the presence of Lord Guan (idiom) / fig. to make a fool of oneself by showing off in front of an expert
a throwing knife / fly cutter (machine tool)
table knife / dinner knife

Sentences with 刀

ná
ǎn
lǎo
su̅n
de
dà
huán
da̅o
lái