名

name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people

名 = 口 + 夕 : Mnemonic symbol: a name badge (from 名牌).

Marilyn Monroe (mi) prepared a mandarin (口) for her bat (夕) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) and put her little darling's name badge (名) in front of it.

名 character breakdown

名
- 口
- 夕

口

kǒu = k + ou3

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

夕

xi̅ = xi + Ø1

dusk / evening / Taiwan pr. [xi4]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks a bit like a bat, and bats come out of their caves at dusk. I could see the upper left 丿 as part of the bat's right wing, ㇇ as the body/head and 丶 as the eye of the bat.

Xi Shi (xi) goes out for a space walk in front of the space station (Ø1) in the evening (夕), where she observes a space bat.

Characters with 名 as component

铭

銘

míng = mi + (e)ng2

to engrave / inscribed motto

铭 = 名 + 钅 : Before she visits engine, in the kitchen ((e)ng2) Marilyn Monroe (mi) engraves (铭) her epitaph (铭) on her name badge (名) using a golden harpoon (钅) just in case anything happens.

茗

míng = mi + (e)ng2

Thea sinensis / young leaves of tea

洺

míng = mi + (e)ng2

name of a river

酩

mǐng = mi + (e)ng3

used in 酩酊[ming3 ding3]

酩

mǐng = mi + (e)ng3

drunk / intoxicated