Mnemonic comic for

Translation

da̅i = d + ai1: foolish / stupid / expressionless / blank / to stay

Mnemonic

The fool (呆) wants to make fun of Don Quixote (d) in front of the airplane (ai1). To fool him, he set up a Christmas tree (木) to look like a huge animal by putting a mandarin (口) on top which looks like the head of the animal. Don Quixote thinks he met his arch enemy and starts to charge the construction, much to the fool's delight.
Comments

In Germany we say "viel hilft viel", more helps more.

Matthias, 1 day ago

呆 character breakdown

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a Christmas tree.

Malte Monkey (mu) is setting up a Christmas tree (木) in the bathroom of the space station (Ø4). He decorates the tree with eight-balls (八) and puts a holy cross (十) at the top of the tree.

Characters with 呆 as component

Bulgaria / Bulgarian / abbr. for 保加利亞|保加利亚[Bao3 jia1 li4 ya4]
to defend; to protect; to keep / to guarantee; to ensure / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a safe.

In the aorta (ao3), the fool (呆) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) unite their forces to protect (保) the world and try to lock Beelzebub (b) in a safe (保).

= + : Every day (每), Mahatma Gandhi (m) is doing a workout (梅) by doing pullups on a plum tree (梅) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2).
(Internet slang) emphatic variant of 呆[dai1]

Words with 呆

fool / sucker
bookworm / pedant / bookish fool
stiff / inflexible / also pr. [ai2 ban3]
dull / lifeless / sluggish
stupid / foolish / dull-witted
(loanword from Japanese "tennen boke") space cadet / muddleheaded
awesome / brilliant / magnificent
to stand idly
to be dumbfounded / to be astonished
open spanner / open end spanner / flat spanner
see 待會兒|待会儿[dai1 hui4 r5]
fool / stupid
idiot / fool
lit. dumb as a wooden chicken (idiom); fig. dumbstruck
endearingly silly

Sentences with 呆

呆 currently does not appear in any sentence.