名
名 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).
dusk / evening / Taiwan pr. [xi4]
Mnemonic symbol: this character looks a bit like a bat, and bats come out of their caves at dusk. I could see the upper left 丿 as part of the bat's right wing, ㇇ as the body/head and 丶 as the eye of the bat.
Xi Shi (xi) goes out for a space walk in front of the space station (Ø1) in the evening (夕), where she observes a space bat.
Xi Shi (xi) goes out for a space walk in front of the space station (Ø1) in the evening (夕), where she observes a space bat.
Characters with 名 as component
Words with 名
lit. name is not in vain (idiom); a fully justified reputation / enjoys a well-deserved reputation
(lit.) name not encountered in the classics / unknown (person) / nobody
the name does not reflect the reality (idiom); more in name than in fact / Reality does not live up to the name. / Excellent theory, but the practice does not bear it out.
the name does not correspond to reality (idiom); it doesn't live up to its reputation
(of a title, degree etc) illegitimately conferred