residence / (coll.) to stay in at home / to hang around at home

= + : Mnemonic symbol: hanging around at home playing video games. After graduating, James II of England (zh) stays at home all day (宅) playing video games in the airplane's kitchen (ai2) while wearing his graduation cap (宀). He plays a game where he has to yield a blade of grass (乇) to control the sword master in his video game.

宅 character breakdown

archaic variant of 托[tuo1]
"blade of grass" component in Chinese characters

= 丿 + : James II of England (zh) pulls out all the stops to cut the banana (丿) lying in front of him in the elevator's kitchen (e2). To cut it he wields a seven-branched laser sword (七) and a blade of grass (乇) in each hand respectively.
"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character look like a graduation cap (宀). Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to go to the anthill after her graduation from university. In the anthill's kitchen (an2), her friends snatch away her graduation cap (宀), and instead put a cooking top (冖) and a petal leaf (丶) on her head.

Characters with 宅 as component

to be surprised / to be astonished

= + : After his graduation Charlie Chaplin (ch) just stays at home playing video games (宅), so one day he is extremely astonished (诧) to find an advertising column (讠) in the ashram's bathroom (a4) advertising job offers.
see 叱咤[chi4 zha4]
boast / despondent
mound / small hill / (used in place names)
beautiful / see 奼紫嫣紅|姹紫嫣红[cha4 zi3 yan1 hong2]
to open out / to expand

Words with 宅

residence / tenement
residence; dwelling; abode
residential area / housing development
inauspicious abode / haunted house
residential building / CL:幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4],棟|栋[dong4]
residence / mansion
to choose a capital by divination / to choose a home / to choose one's burial place by divination
former residence

Sentences with 宅

宅 currently does not appear in any sentence.