elephant / CL:隻|只[zhi1] / shape / form / appearance / to imitate

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: I already used an ordinary elephant for 勹, which is fine, because 勹 appears many times and 象 only a few times. Thus to represent 象 I'll use a locomotive from 1844's Austria, which was called "KFNB Elephant".

= + + : Marie Curie sees the crane and the swine fight about a single mandarin in the anglepod's bathroom. To smooth down the differences, with a locomotive she drives a whole container of mandarins in the bathroom.

象 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).
hog / swine

= + 𧰨 : Someone has killed the swine (豕) in the space station's living room (Ø3). While it is floating in the middle of the air Sherlock Holmes (sh) is investigating the crime scene. He doesn't notice the caterpillar (𧰨) suspiciously hiding from his eyes in a huge flute (一) floating at the top of the room.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

I think this looks like a crane; to the left is its wing, and to the right its head.

Characters with 象 as component

to resemble / to be like / to look as if / such as / appearance / image / portrait / image under a mapping (math.)

= + : "Look at that elephant (象). Do you know who it looks like (像)?" Xi Shi (xi) asks Kazimierz Luxemburg in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). "No, who?" "Your aunt (亻)."

= + : In anglepod's bathroom, Marie Curie and Rosa Luxemburg find a most delighting Elephant locomotive. They are so excited that they spontaneously start playing locomotive themselves, with Rosa grapping Marie's shoulders, and Marie exclaiming "choo choo" while pretending to pull a string, resembling the Elephant.
oak / Quercus serrata

= + : Marie Curie (xi) wants to plant some oaks (橡) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4), so she had the KFNB Elephant (象) transport young oaks to the bathroom. In exchange she provides the train with a lot of Christmas trees (木) to be used as fuel for the steam engine.
happy / carefree / at one's ease / variant of 預|预[yu4] / old variant of 與|与[yu4]

= + : Zai Yu (予) is happily (豫) playing with his elephant locomotive (象) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). When he noticed Yu the Great (yu) he hesitates (豫) for a moment, but continues playing shortly afterwards.
abbr. for Henan province 河南 in central China
silkworm

Words with 象

El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean
to touch an elephant with closed eyes (idiom); to proceed blindly
phenomenological
four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿[er4 shi2 ba1 xiu4] of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙[Qing1 long2], White Tiger 白虎[Bai2 hu3], Vermilion Bird 朱雀[Zhu1 que4], Black Tortoise 玄武[Xuan2 wu3]
variant of 圖像|图像[tu2 xiang4]
points gained by making a good impression / kudos / brownie points

Sentences with 象

zhè
zhè
zhè
 
 
zhè
jiǎn
zhí
bù
xiàng
huà