当

(onom.) dong / ding dong (bell)

当 = 小 + 彐 : This character looks like an angry pitbull. 小 forms the eyes and maybe nose, and 彐 are the dangerous teeth.

当 = 小 + 彐 : Don Quixote opposes a dangerous pit bull in front of the anglepod, and he tries to calm him down with a daisy.

当

當

da̅ng = d + ang1

to be / to act as / manage / withstand / when / during / ought / should / match equally / equal / same / obstruct / just at (a time or place) / on the spot / right / just at

当 = 小 + 彐 : This character looks like an angry pitbull. 小 forms the eyes and maybe nose, and 彐 are the dangerous teeth.

当 = 小 + 彐 : Don Quixote opposes a dangerous pit bull in front of the anglepod, and he tries to calm him down with a daisy.

当

當

dàng = d + ang4

at or in the very same... / suitable / adequate / fitting / proper / to replace / to regard as / to think / to pawn / (coll.) to fail (a student)

当 character breakdown

当
- 小
  - 亅
  - 八
    - 丿
    - ㇏
- 彐
  - 二
    - 一

小

xiǎo = xi + ao3

small / tiny / few / young

小 = 八 + 亅 : Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.

Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).

彐

jì = ji + Ø4

pig snout (Kangxi radical 58)

彐 = ㇕ + 二 : Joan of Arc wears a fake pig snout in the space station's bathroom and makes grunting and squealing sounds.

Characters with 当 as component

挡

攩

dǎng = d + ang3

variant of 擋|挡[dang3]

挡 = 当 + 扌 : An angry pitbull (当) attacks Don Quixote (d) in the anglepod (ang3), but Don Quixote resists (挡) with a toy claw (扌). The pitbull bites into the toy claw fiercely, but the toy claw is able to resist (挡) his bite.

挡

擋

dǎng = d + ang3

to resist / to obstruct / to hinder / to keep off / to block (a blow) / to get in the way of / cover / gear (e.g. in a car's transmission)

挡

擋

dàng = d + ang4

to arrange / to put in order

档

檔

dàng = d + ang4

official records / grade (of goods) / file / records / shelves / slot / gap / crosspiece / classifier for crosspieces / classifier for events, affairs etc / Taiwan pr. [dang3]

档 = 当 + 木 : Don Quixote (d) found that he got the new folders he wanted for Christmas, but he also finds the shreds that the angry pitbull (当) made out of them under the Christmas tree (木) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). Don Quixote leaps towards the Christmas tree anyway to save (档) what can be saved.

档

檔

dǎng = d + ang3

(Tw) variant of 擋|挡[dang3], gear

铛

鐺

che̅ng = ch + (e)ng1

frying pan / griddle

铛

鐺

da̅ng = d + ang1

clank / clang / sound of metal