surname Xu
to allow / to permit / to promise / to praise / somewhat / perhaps

= + : Xu Xian just loves having lunch in the space station. In fact he loves it so much that he calls mission control to get permission to praise it on an advertising column. After he got the permission, he smears his lunch all over the advertising column.

许 character breakdown

7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse / ancient Chinese compass point: 180° (south)

= 𠂉 + : Willy Walrus (w) is having lunch (午) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He was hiding it in a secret location: With a key (𠂉), he can unlock a chamber hidden in the space station's cross (十).
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).

Characters with 许 as component

bank of a river

Words with 许

perhaps / maybe
perhaps; maybe
perhaps / maybe
to permit / to allow
a little / a few
(literary) what kind of person
(literary) how many / quite a few
forbidden / not allowed
to offer official positions and material benefits in order to buy people's allegiance
to consent tacitly / unspoken approval
to promise / to allow
to esteem / to commend
written permission / written authorization
to give one's heart to / to devote one's life to
to dedicate oneself to the cause of one's country (idiom)
(literary) what place / what time / how
only the official is allowed to light the fire / Gods may do what cattle may not / quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi
favorable / praise
(literary) like this / such (as this) / so much / so many

Sentences with 许

许 currently does not appear in any sentence.