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).

含 character breakdown

now / the present time / current / contemporary / this (day, year etc)

= + : A rip off calendar showing today's date: 今

= + : Joan of Arc has changed into half-duck half-human being and lives in a tipi in front of the encampment. With her beak, she shows a rip off calender with the date of Armageddon: today.
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).

Characters with 含 as component

before daybreak / dawn about to break / (used in given names)
chin / to nod (one's assent)
enthalpy
a sound / to put in the mouth
gems or pearls formerly put into the mouth of a corpse
a mouth or opening
to hold / to contain

Words with 含

to contain / to embody / to include
containing oil / oil-bearing
permeated with beautiful music (idiom)
to bear shame and humiliation (idiom)
to contain / to include
permeated with beautiful music (idiom)
Hanshan county in Chaohu 巢湖[Chao2 hu2], Anhui
Hanshan county in Chaohu 巢湖[Chao2 hu2], Anhui
to eat humble pie / to accept humiliation / to turn the other cheek
fine, lasting flavor (of literature)

Sentences with 含

含 currently does not appear in any sentence.