Mnemonic comic for 是
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Mnemonic symbol: a skull, from "to be or not to be".
Sherlock Holmes (sh) starts his day in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) with a mug of coffee (旦). Holding a skull (mnemonic symbol for 是) in his hands, he asks himself "to be, or not to be" (是). He wonders if he can make the skull come back to life using lots of coffee, and injects coffee from his mug into the skull using a syringe (龰).
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All translations for 是
variant of 是[shi4] / (used in given names)
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to be (followed by substantives only) / correct; right; true / (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well / (adverb for emphatic assertion)
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是 character breakdown
down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action
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abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan
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sun / day / date, day of the month
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dawn / morning / daybreak / day / dan, female roles in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)
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Character component without intrinsic meaning
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person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
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Characters with 是 as component
dike / Taiwan pr. [ti2]
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variant of 堤[di1]
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topic / problem for discussion / exam question / subject / to inscribe / to mention / CL:個|个[ge4],道[dao4]
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used in 鑰匙|钥匙[yao4 shi5]
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to carry (hanging down from the hand) / to lift / to put forward / to mention / to raise (an issue) / upwards character stroke / lifting brush stroke (in painting) / scoop for measuring liquid
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used in 提防[di1 fang5] and 提溜[di1 liu5]
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orange-red silk / orange-red colored
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essential oil of butter
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surname Di
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Words with 是
not the right flavor / not quite right / a bit off / fishy / queer / amiss / feel bad / be upset
lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom) / fig. it's a life-and-death struggle / it's either him or me
it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)
lit. one is one, two is two (idiom) / fig. things are (or ought to be) perfectly clear-cut / unequivocal
lit. to keep ding (the fourth heavenly stem) distinct from mao (the fourth earthly branch) (idiom) / fig. meticulous / conscientious / unambiguous
people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom) / marriages are predestined / people marry because they share common traits
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