Mnemonic comic for 失
Mnemonic
Sherlock (sh) locked himself out of the space station (Ø1)! He lost (失) his key (𠂉)! After he was floating in front of the space station for an eternity, a robot (大) came by with a lost+found box (失) which contained his lost key.
Comments
失 character breakdown
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]
see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
husband / man / manual worker / conscripted laborer (old)
(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
Character component without intrinsic meaning
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)