to ask about / to inquire about

= + : Xu Xian (xu) is interested in fasting for ten days (旬). In the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2) he finds an interactive advertising column (讠) and inquires (询) about pros and cons.

詢 character breakdown

ten days / ten years / full period

= + : Mnemonic symbol: to fast for ten days.

Xu Xian (xu) has been fasting for ten days now (旬). He tries to get by just by absorbing the sun's (日) energy, but as he is sun bathing in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2) and a fat elephant (勹) walks by he cannot help but bite the elephant's leg.
words / speech / to say / to talk

= + + : The horizontal lines look like sound waves that emerge from an opening: I'll resemble 言 by a megaphone.

= + + : Maud Younger rushes into anthill and in the kitchen she uses a megaphone to loudly announce that the world revolution will soon start. She also tells the people that she has berets for everyone so that everyone will be able to be in style for the revolution. However she doesn't tell that she prepared the berets in another way: to each beret, she attached a mandarin via two capacitors which forms a formidable antenna, so that after the revolution, she'll be able to transmit her speeches directly to the wearers' brains.

Characters with 詢 as component

詢 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 詢

to consult / to seek advice / consultation / (sales) inquiry (formal)
to check / to inquire / to consult (a document etc) / inquiry / query
to question / to enquire / interrogatory
to consult / to query / to solicit opinion
to inquire (of) / to consult
quotation request / price inquiry / price check
to make inquiries
lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
consultation / to consult / to inquire
to poll / polling
to interrogate / to question closely
to inquire into / to ask after
Ouyang Xun (557-641), one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家[Tang2 chu1 Si4 Da4 jia1]

Sentences with 詢

詢 currently does not appear in any sentence.