Mnemonic comic for

Translation

rì = r + Ø4: sun / day / date, day of the month

Mnemonic

Robinson Crusoe (r) is hiding from the sun (日) in an enclosure (囗) full of flutes (一) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).

All translations for 日

abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan
sun / day / date, day of the month

= + : Robinson Crusoe (r) is hiding from the sun (日) in an enclosure (囗) full of flutes (一) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).

Comments

Whenever a Pinyin initial is sufficient to represent the entire Pinyin syllable, we use the space station as the background scenery. As a reminder, here's the key how the tone maps to certain areas of a location:
Here's the key how to remember the tone of the Pinyin final:

1 -> in front
2 -> in the kitchen
3 -> in the living room
4 -> in the bathroom
5 -> on the roof

In this case, this is what the space station's bathroom actually more or less looks like. I downloaded a CAD drawing of the ISS from NASA, found the bathroom, rendered it in Blender (open source 3D software), and used the render as a basis for the final touches from Stable Diffusion (AI image generation software). Neat, huh?

Matthias, over 1 year ago (edited over 1 year ago)

日 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
enclosure

Mnemonic symbol: a plastic enclosure. Willy Walrus (w) is keeping frozen fish in an enclosure (囗) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2).

Characters with 日 as component

white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a white flag. The sun (日) is waving with a white (白) flag (白) in the airplane's kitchen (ai2) while Beelzebub (b) is beating them with a big petal leaf (丶).
dawn / morning / daybreak / day / dan, female roles in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A big mug, since many people start the day with a mug of coffee.

Don Quixote (d) meets the sun (日) early in the morning (旦) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). Don Quixote is full of energy and can't wait to start into a new adventure, but since the sun is a morning grouch who only just started drinking her mug of coffee (mnemonic symbol for 旦) she cannot stand it and beats him over the head with a flute (一) to calm him a bit down.
o'clock / time / when / hour / season / period

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a giant pocket watch.

The sun (日) asks Sherlock Holmes (sh) out for a coffee in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). Looking at his pocket watch (时), Sherlock sees he has time, winks and "thumbs up" (寸).
old variant of 時|时[shi2]
prosperous / flourishing

= : Mnemonic symbol: 文昌鱼, lancelet, a kind of very small and primitive fish.

The lancelet (昌) and Charlie Chaplin (ch) lead a very prosperous (昌) life in front of the anglepod (ang1). Each of them is so rich that they both purchased their personal sun (日). They are lying on beach chairs and enjoying their suns.
easy / amiable / to change / to exchange / prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible" / abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1], the Book of Changes

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a really easy puzzle consisting of only two parts.

Maud Younger (y) and the sun (日) are trying to complete a really easy puzzle (易) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). It's not as easy as they thought though, because in zero gravity they can only move with the help of their bat wings (勿).
ten days / ten years / full period

= + : Mnemonic symbol: to fast for ten days.

Xu Xian (xu) has been fasting for ten days now (旬). He tries to get by just by absorbing the sun's (日) energy, but as he is sun bathing in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2) and a fat elephant (勹) walks by he cannot help but bite the elephant's leg.
crystal

= : Joan of Arc (ji) wants to solve the atomic structure of the sun, and so she uses a lot of suns (日) to create a crystal (晶) for X-ray crystallography in front of the engine ((e)ng1).
star / heavenly body / satellite / small amount

= + : The sun (日) and a satellite (星) had a love affair and now have a baby: Xi Shi (xi) is quietly sleeping in her little cradle (生) in front of the engine ((e)ng1).

Words with 日

former days / the past
anniversary of a death / inauspicious day
another day / some other day
imminent / just around the corner (idiom)
lit. to dispel the clouds and see the sun (idiom); fig. to restore justice
deadline; cut-off date
(China's) War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945)
the Save the Nation Anti-Japanese Protest Movement stemming from the Manchurian railway incident of 18th July 1931 九一八事變|九一八事变
Lagrange (name) / Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1735-1813), French mathematician and physicist
daily (law) / per diem
to fix a date (for an event) / to select an auspicious date
lit. carefully setting an auspicious date does not beat seizing an opportunity (idiom) / fig. seize the occasion
to pick an auspicious day
the day after tomorrow / from hence / from now / from now on / henceforth
memorial day / commemoration day
Ear Care Day (March 3)
all day long / the whole day / the whole time
to resist Japan (esp. during WW2) / anti-Japanese (esp. wartime activities)

Sentences with 日

zhǐ
shì
yǎng
zài
tia̅n
shàng
 
 
rì
zi
jiǔ
le
yòu
yào
she̅ng
shì