to send / to mail / to entrust / to depend on / to attach oneself to / to live (in a house) / to lodge / foster (son etc)

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) mails (寄) home a present from the space station's bathroom (Ø4). She decided to mail a cappuccino (奇) in a graduation cap (宀).

寄 character breakdown

odd (number)
strange / odd / weird / wonderful / surprisingly / unusually

= + : Mnemonic symbol: cappuccino (卡布奇诺)

The Queen of Hearts (qi) craves a cappuccino (奇) just inside the entrance of the space station (Ø2), and the robot (大) has one in his robot hands. He will give it to the Queen of Hearts under one weird (奇) condition: she shall prove that she's worth to receive the cappuccino by sitting on a bed of nails (可). The Queen agrees and pretends to be in much vain, but really she's just pretending since there is no gravity in the space station.
"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 寄 as component

寄 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 寄

warehouse / temporary store / left-luggage office / cloak-room
goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it / also written 千里送鵝毛|千里送鹅毛
to mail separately
to lodge under another person's roof (idiom); to live relying on sb else's charity
to send (message to sb) / to communicate / to forward (message)
see 寄件人[ji4 jian4 ren2]
adopted name / to take a name (of one's adoptive family)

Sentences with 寄

寄 currently does not appear in any sentence.