Mnemonic comic for

Translation

wéi = w + ei2: enclosure

Mnemonic

Mnemonic symbol: a plastic enclosure. Willy Walrus (w) is keeping frozen fish in an enclosure (囗) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2).

Comments

Do not confuse 囗 (enclosure, this character) and 口 (mouth): the slightly larger one is used whenever another component is used inside of it. 口 is always empty.

Matthias, 6 months ago

Shoutout to SaraSara for uploading her ice cube, Maiconfz for uploading the ice box and Moini for uploading the fish to openclipart.org!

Matthias, 6 months ago

囗 character breakdown

The character 囗 cannot be broken down into individual components.

Characters with 囗 as component

abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan
sun / day / date, day of the month

= + : Robinson Crusoe (r) is hiding from the sun (日) in an enclosure (囗) full of flutes (一) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
country / nation / state / national / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a nation's flag. Let's say the Chinese flag.

In the observatory's kitchen (o2) Gitta Giraffe (gu) is practising her ballet performance. She got a whole crate (囗) full of jade bracelets (玉) and flags (国) and fixed one flag to each jade bracelet. This makes a perfect combination for throwing the ring with the flag waving behind it and catching the ring again after a few pirouettes.
surname Guo
the West / abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2] / Spanish

西 = + : Marie Curie has gone crazy from the loneliness in space. In front of the space station, she sits inside of a large wooden box, wearing a cowboy hat and playing a 胡兀尔 fiddle, thinking that she's participating in a square dance in the wild west.

西 = + : The wild west is largely recognized by the symbol of the cowboy hat.
eye / (literary) to look; to regard / eye (of a net); mesh / mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4]) / item; section / list; catalogue / (taxonomy) order / name; title

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the Eye of Providence (目). Malte Monkey (mu-) is unpacking a wooden box (囗) full of capacitors (二). He's afraid that the Eye of Providence (目) will see him, so he does it secretly in the space station's bathroom (-Ø4).
archaic variant of 坰[jiong1]

= + : Zeus is working at a border control checkpoint in front of the engine, but there is no-one to be checked. He is so bored that he's driving staples into mandarins without end.

= + : A border control checkpoint.
to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book)

= + : Helga Horse (hu-) smuggled herself into the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (-ei2). She covered herself in an enclosure (囗) full of mandarins (口). Unfortunately, she missed one little detail: The box full of mandarins is to be shipped back (回) to China soon.
variant of 迴|回[hui2]
to curve / to return / to revolve
variant of 回[hui2]

= + : Let's say this one looks like a closet.
surname Tian
field / farm / CL:片[pian4]

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) wants to plant a field of crosses (田) just inside the anthill's kitchen (an2). She ordered a wooden box (囗) with crosses (十) inside and puts them up one by one.

Words with 囗

囗 is not used as a character in a word.

Sentences with 囗

囗 currently does not appear in any sentence.