(old) jade tablet (a ceremonial badge of rank)

= : Gitta Giraffe (gu) is modelling a jade tablet (圭) out of clay (土) in front of the Eiffel Tower (ei1).

圭 character breakdown

Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Tommy Turtle (tu) wants to fix a cross (十) on a flute (一) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He uses dust and clay (土) to hold them together.

Characters with 圭 as component

street / CL:條|条[tiao2]

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) set up a street (街) in front of the elevator (e1) by plastering the floor with jade tablets (圭). She is the first one to try out the new street using her seven-league boots (行).
shoe / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]

= + : Marie Curie (xi) made herself some shoes (鞋) and tries them on in the elevator's kitchen (e2). She cut the shoes out of a cow's hide (革) of which shreds are scattered all around. The shoes are a bit small, so Marie needs to use a jade tablet (圭) as shoehorn to get into the shoe.
variant of 鞋[xie2]

= + : Marie Curie (xi) made herself some shoes (鞋) and tries them on in the elevator's kitchen (e2). She cut the shoes out of a cow's hide (革) of which shreds are scattered all around. The shoes are a bit small, so Marie needs to use a jade tablet (圭) as shoehorn to get into the shoe.
surname Feng

= + : Frankenstein's Monster (f) received a grant (封) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). The grant gives him the funds to continue his research about excavating jade tablets (圭) in the area. The grant itself has also been inscribed into a jade tablet (圭). At the same time he is also conferred the title of "master excavator". This saves Frankenstein's scientific career, so he happily thumbs up (寸).
to confer / to grant / to bestow a title / to seal / classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters

= + : Frankenstein's Monster (f) received a grant (封) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). The grant gives him the funds to continue his research about excavating jade tablets (圭) in the area. The grant itself has also been inscribed into a jade tablet (圭). At the same time he is also conferred the title of "master excavator". This saves Frankenstein's scientific career, so he happily thumbs up (寸).
to hang or suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried or concerned / to make a phone call (dialect) / to register or record / classifier for sets or clusters of objects / (slang) to kill / to die / to be finished / to fail (an exam)

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) cleaned all her jade tablets (圭) by putting them in the ashram's washing mashine (a4). Now she is putting them on the clothes hanger (挂) using a toy claw (扌).
surname Jia

= + : In front of the ashram, Joan of Arc admires Rosa Luxemburg's beautiful new jade tablet.
beautiful / fine / good

= + : In front of the ashram, Joan of Arc admires Rosa Luxemburg's beautiful new jade tablet.
baby / doll

= + : Willy Walrus (w) and Bessie Coleman (女) just recently had a baby (娃). In the ashram's kitchen (a2) they are reading a manual recorded on jade tablets (圭) on how to care for the child.
wa = w + a5
replaces 啊[a5] when following the vowel "u" or "ao"
Wow! / sound of child's crying / sound of vomiting

= + : Willy Walrus (w) is babysitting a baby in front of the ashram (a1), but the baby is crying (哇) all the time. Willy Walrus already tried to have it play with a jade tablet (圭) and to feed it a mandarin (口), but the baby was not interested at all.
Wow! / sound of a child's crying / sound of vomiting

Words with 圭

Choe Gyuha (1919-2006), South Korean politician, president 1979-1980
wicker door, hole window (idiom); fig. wretched hovel / living in poverty
Lilongwe, capital of Malawi
to take as a guiding principle (idiom)

Sentences with 圭

圭 currently does not appear in any sentence.