forever / always / perpetual

= + : Yu the Great just got the most romantic proposal ever! In engine, somebody prepared a water fountain and had a diamond ring floating on a petal leaf float over to her. Unfortunately Yu the Great doesn't know who the ring is from, as her lover drowned in the water fountain earlier that day.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: as the advertisements tell us, diamonds are forever. I'll represent 永 with a diamond ring.

永 character breakdown

"dot" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 3) / see also 點|点[dian3]

This character shall be represented by a petal (丶) when appearing in other characters.

Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is napping in the space station's living room (Ø3) and hugging a petal (丶).
surname Shui
water / river / liquid / beverage / additional charges or income / (of clothes) classifier for number of washes

= + + 丿 + : Sheldon Shrimp just climbed the Eiffel Tower. He's really thirsty, so he's glad to find a water fountain. After he quenches his thirst, he also finds a snack: A banana is swimming in the water. He never ate a banana before, so he tries a mix of different methods: Putting on a fake beak to pick on the banana, holding it with a finger and peeling it with a crowbar.

Characters with 永 as component

to seek / to look for / to request / to demand / to beseech

= : In the outhouse's kitchen, the Queen of Hearts sees a diamond ring and wants to have it immediately. Determined she rings the service bell endlessly to request the immediate handover.

= : Mnemonic symbol: a service request bell. You know, the kind you find in a hotel on a service counter.
arteries and veins / vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)

= + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) is getting married to the moon (月) in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). The moon puts a diamond ring (永) on Gandhi's finger which is so tight that Gandhi's arteries and veins (脉) are getting all bound off.
old variant of 脈|脉[mai4]

= + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) is getting married to the moon (月) in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). The moon puts a diamond ring (永) on Gandhi's finger which is so tight that Gandhi's arteries and veins (脉) are getting all bound off.
variant of 脈|脉[mai4]

= + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) is getting married to the moon (月) in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). The moon puts a diamond ring (永) on Gandhi's finger which is so tight that Gandhi's arteries and veins (脉) are getting all bound off.
see 脈脈|脉脉[mo4 mo4]
to sing
swimming / to swim

= + : Yu the Great (yu) is swimming (泳) through a sea of diamond rings (永) inside of the engine ((e)ng3). It is very exhausting, so she often has to take sips from her water bottle (氵).
(of the day) long / old variant of 暢|畅[chang4]
(archaic) a kind of tree whose timber was used to make ceremonial tablets 笏[hu4]

Words with 永

Yongcheng, county-level city in Shangqiu 商丘[Shang1 qiu1], Henan
Yongkang, county-level city in Jinhua 金華|金华[Jin1 hua2], Zhejiang / Yungkang city in Tainan county 台南縣|台南县[Tai2 nan2 xian4], Taiwan
Yongle Emperor, reign name of third Ming emperor Zhu Di 朱棣[Zhu1 Di4] (1360-1424), reigned 1403-1424, temple name 明成祖[Ming2 Cheng2 zu3]
Jiangyong county in Yongzhou 永州[Yong3 zhou1], Hunan
Jiangyong county in Yongzhou 永州[Yong3 zhou1], Hunan
Wang Yongmin (1943-), inventor of the five stroke input method 五筆輸入法|五笔输入法[wu3 bi3 shu1 ru4 fa3]
Ye Yonglie (1940-), popular science writer
Guo Yonghuai (1909-1968), Chinese aviation pioneer
Kim Yong-nam (1928-), North Korean politician, foreign minister 1983-1998, president of the Supreme People's Assembly 1998-2019 (nominal head of state and described as deputy leader)
Roger Yonchien Tsien (1952-), US Chinese chemist and 2008 Nobel laureate

Sentences with 永

ruò
bù
chú
qù
 
 
lóng
go̅ng
yǒng
yuǎn
bù
dé
a̅n
níng