chin / to nod (one's assent)

頷 character breakdown

to keep / to contain / to suck (keep in your mouth without chewing)

= + : Hamlet (h) caught a cold and in order to cure it, he follows a very strict medicine plan. He put up a rip-off calendar (今) in the anthill's kitchen which shows when he has to put a cough drop (mnemonic symbol for 含) in his mouth (口) to suck (含). The calendar always shows the right date: today (今). Hamlet made the cough drops himself out of mandarins (口).
head
page / leaf

= + : mnemonic symbol: a sheet of paper.

= + : It's just too hot in Greece for the crab, so it wants to return to the ocean. Inside of the elevator's bathroom, Maud Younger helps it to do so. The plan is to just flush it down the toilet. The toilet is operated with the help of wind power, but there's no wind today. Maud Younger makes short work, grabs to sheets of paper and waves them towards the wind wheel until it turns really quickly. Finally the crab can return home.

Characters with 頷 as component

頷 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 頷

lower jaw / mandible
lower jawbone / mandible
under one's chin
submaxillary glands (biology)
third and fourth lines (in an eight-line poem) which form a couplet
to nod one's head

Sentences with 頷

頷 currently does not appear in any sentence.