character / nature / quality / plain / to pawn / pledge / hostage / to question / Taiwan pr. [zhi2]

= + + : James II of England (zh) captured a crab (贝) and keeps it as a hostage (质) In the space station's bathroom (Ø4). James II of England wants to find out more about the nature (质) of the banana tree (⺁), so all the crab gets to eat is the banana trees. Secretly the crab set up a small cross (十) to which it prays everyday for its release.

质 character breakdown

ten / 10

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).
surname Bei
cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a crab. In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), the Neanderthal man (人) and Beelzebub (b) are fighting a crab with staplers (⺆), but because the Neanderthal man (人) can't handle the stapler he accidentally staples himself in the forehead.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: two and more bananas (丿) are part of a larger banana tree (⺁).

Characters with 质 as component

(executioner's) block
to stumble

Words with 质

character / intrinsic quality (of a person) / quality (of a product or service, or as in "quality of life", "air quality" etc)
shoddy / of poor quality
excellent quality
shelf life / expiration date
medium / media
endoplasmic reticulum (ER)
to mortgage / to pawn
simple substance (consisting purely of one element, such as diamond)
(chemistry) mass transfer (as observed in processes like evaporation, distillation and membrane filtration)

Sentences with 质

质 currently does not appear in any sentence.