Mnemonic comic for

Translation

míng = mi + (e)ng2: name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people

Mnemonic

Mnemonic symbol: a name badge (from 名牌). Marilyn Monroe (mi) prepared a mandarin (口) for her bat (夕) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) and put her little darling's name badge (名) in front of it.

名 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).
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.

Characters with 名 as component

to engrave / inscribed motto

= + : Before she visits engine, in the kitchen ((e)ng2) Marilyn Monroe (mi) engraves (铭) her epitaph (铭) on her name badge (名) using a golden harpoon (钅) just in case anything happens.
Thea sinensis / young leaves of tea
name of a river
used in 酩酊[ming3 ding3]
drunk / intoxicated
space between the eyebrows and the eyelashes

Words with 名

your name has been known to me for a long time (polite)
seasoned / honed to perfection over centuries / special reserve
disreputable / disgraceful
indescribable / beyond description
pet name for a child / infant name
middle name / second given name
hostname (of a networked computer)
I have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time (idiom)
I've admired your reputation for a long time (idiom); I've been looking forward to meeting you. / It's an honor to meet you at last.
binomial nomenclature (taxonomy) / same as 雙名法|双名法[shuang1 ming2 fa3]
uncountable noun (in grammar of European languages)
without a penny to one's name / penniless / stony-broke
see 無記名|无记名[wu2 ji4 ming2]

Sentences with 名

nǐ
shì
nǎ
lù
máo
shén
 
 
bào
shàng
míng
lái