岁

classifier for years (of age) / year / year (of crop harvests)

岁 = 夕 + 山 : Susan Saint Bernard (su) meets a bat (夕) in the bathroom of the Eiffel Tower (ei4). They make a bet: The one who is older (岁) will be allowed to eat the other using a fork (山).

岁 character breakdown

岁
- 夕
- 山
  - 丨
  - 凵

夕

xi̅ = xi + Ø1

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.

山

sha̅n = sh + an1

mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable

山 = 丨 + 凵 : Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.

Characters with 岁 as component

秽

穢

huì = hu + ei4

dirt / filth

秽 = 禾 + 岁 : In the end, after many years of age (岁) everything ends up as dust (秽). This is what Helga Horse (hu) realizes in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4) after she left a bowl of cereals (禾) for several years (岁) and the cereals turned to dirt (秽).

翙

翽

huì = hu + ei4

noise of bird's wings

刿

劌

guì = gu + ei4

cut / injure

哕

噦

huì = hu + ei4

used in 噦噦|哕哕[hui4 hui4]