員

person / employee / member

员 = 口 + 贝 : Mnemonic symbol from 服务员, a waiter.

员 = 口 + 贝 : Yu the Great and a crab are having dinner just inside the anthill's kitchen. They ordered mandarins, and the waiter serves them.

員 character breakdown

員
- 口
- 貝
  - 八
    - 丿
    - ㇏
  - 目
    - 二
      - 一
    - 囗

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).

贝

貝

bèi = b + ei4

surname Bei

贝

貝

bèi = b + ei4

cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

贝 = ⺆ + 人 : 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.

Characters with 員 as component

圆

圓

yuán = yu + an2

circle / round / circular / spherical / (of the moon) full / unit of Chinese currency (yuan) / tactful / to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie)

圆 = 员 + 囗 : Yu the Great (yu) is having dinner in the anthill's kitchen (an2). There is a waiter (员) serving her food from a wooden box (囗) until Yu the Great is as round (圆) as the full moon.

损

損

sǔn = su + (e)n3

to decrease / to lose / to damage / to harm / (coll.) to speak sarcastically / to deride / caustic / mean / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (䷨)

损 = 员 + 扌 : Susan Saint Bernard (su) left her web just for a second to visit the bathroom, but when she comes back she finds that the encampment's ((e)n3) waiter (员) destroyed (损) her web with a toy claw (扌).

损

損

sǔn = su + (e)n3

to decrease; to lose / to damage; to harm / (coll.) to ridicule; to deride / (coll.) caustic; sarcastic; nasty; mean / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨

勋

勛

xu̅n = xu + (e)n1

medal / merit

韵

韻

yùn = yu + (e)n4

the final (of a syllable) (Chinese phonology) / rhyme / appeal / charm / (literary) pleasant sound

陨

隕

yǔn = yu + (e)n3

to fall / meteor / to perish / see also 殞|殒[yun3]