surname Li / abbr. for 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4], Classic of Rites

= + : Li Qingzhao got a present from earth for her birthday while doing experiments in the space station. In the gift box, she found a shovel and a monk's cowl. She uses zero gravity to pretend to be a witch, using the monk's cowl as a witches' cloak and riding the shovel like a broom.
gift / rite / ceremony / CL:份[fen4] / propriety / etiquette / courtesy

= + : Li Qingzhao got a present from earth for her birthday while doing experiments in the space station. In the gift box, she found a shovel and a monk's cowl. She uses zero gravity to pretend to be a witch, using the monk's cowl as a witches' cloak and riding the shovel like a broom.

礼 character breakdown

component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 毫[hao2] / archaic variant of 乙[yi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a shovel (乚).

Remember it by imagining Maud Younger (y) digging her own grave with a shovel in the ashram's bathroom (a4).
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= + + : A cult: I'll represent this with a monk's cowl in other mnemonics.

Characters with 礼 as component

礼 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 礼

a land of ceremony and propriety
(Confucianism) rites and music (the means of regulating society)
gift voucher / gift coupon
ritual object / sacrificial vessel
see 禮崩樂壞|礼崩乐坏[li3 beng1 yue4 huai4]
nobody will find fault with extra courtesy (idiom) / courtesy costs nothing
rites and music are in ruins (idiom); fig. society in total disarray / cf. 禮樂|礼乐[li3 yue4]
see 禮崩樂壞|礼崩乐坏[li3 beng1 yue4 huai4]
sufferings brought about by Confucian ethics
Classic of Rites
see 禮崩樂壞|礼崩乐坏[li3 beng1 yue4 huai4]
Liquan County in Xianyang 咸陽|咸阳[Xian2 yang2], Shaanxi
Liquan County in Xianyang 咸陽|咸阳[Xian2 yang2], Shaanxi
Salyut (salute), Russian spacecraft series
Classic of Rites (same as 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4])
Li county in Longnan 隴南|陇南[Long3 nan2], Gansu
righteousness / justice
sense of propriety, justice, integrity and honor (i.e. the four social bonds, 四維|四维[si4 wei2])
etiquette / system of rites

Sentences with 礼

nà
su̅n
wù
ko̅ng
shì
xià
jiè
xia̅n
rén
 
 
bù
dǒng
tia̅n
tíng
lǐ
jié