surname Kong

= + : Karl Koala (ku) created one 孔 cave dwelling by digging a hole (孔) into one of the engine's ((e)ng3) boulders using a shovel (乚). Unfortunately there are many mosquitoes (孑) and Karl tries to kill them using the shovel.
hole / CL:個|个[ge4] / classifier for cave dwellings

= + : Karl Koala (ku) created one 孔 cave dwelling by digging a hole (孔) into one of the engine's ((e)ng3) boulders using a shovel (乚). Unfortunately there are many mosquitoes (孑) and Karl tries to kill them using the shovel.

孔 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).
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat / Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / sub-

= + : Zorro wants to eat an egg in the space station, and he already put it in a prize cup, as he has no egg cup. He also lacks a spoon, so he uses a big flute to crush the egg open.
(noun suffix)
all alone

= + : Just inside the elevator's kitchen Joan of Arc hands a prize cup to a very proud mosquito. The mosquito won a flute-playing contest.

Characters with 孔 as component

to roar / to howl / to shriek / roar or howl of an animal / bellow of rage

= + : Hamlet (h) accidentally dropped his last mandarin (口) in the only hole (孔) in the outhouse (ou3) and howls (吼) loudly over his loss.
hollow / scallion stalk

Words with 孔

Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3]
small hole in an object
Kong Yingda (574-648), Confucian scholar
aperture / hole / cavity
Kong Rong (153-208), poet of the Three Kingdoms period
Kong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融[Kong3 Rong2] picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty
opening providing access / the teaching of Confucius
Confucius' school (i.e. his direct disciples)
(Internet slang) spoiled city girl from a rich family
Pavo (constellation)

Sentences with 孔

孔 currently does not appear in any sentence.