3rd earthly branch: 3-5 a.m., 1st solar month (4th February-5th March), year of the Tiger / ancient Chinese compass point: 60°

= + + + : Mnemonic symbol: a plush tiger.

Maud Younger (y) and her plush tiger (寅) just graduated. Wearing their graduation hats (宀) they come out of the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2) where they had to study for years and celebrate their new freedom by drinking cuba libres (由). They also are overjoyed that finally they can spend their time just having fun: the plush tiger uses a flute (一) as a bat to shoot an eightball (八) into Maud's direction, who catches it using her graduation cap as baseball glove.

寅 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
"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.
to follow / from / because of / due to / by / via / through / (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 自由古巴, a cuba libre. The character 由 itself even looks like a cuba libre.

Maud Younger (y) is taking part in a charity auction in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). She is auctioning the dinosaur bone (丨) next to her and is speaking into a microphone (曰). In the other hand she is holding a cuba libre (由), and she is already quite drunk.
eight; 8

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: eight-ball. Beelzebub (b-) is balancing two eight-balls in front of the ashram (-a1): One on a banana (丿) and one on a finger (㇏).
to follow / from / because of; due to / by; via; through / (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...

Characters with 寅 as component

to develop / to evolve / to practice / to perform / to play / to act

= + : Maud Younger (y) and her plush tiger (寅) are drinking inside of the anthill (an3). Maud is drinking bai jiu, but her plush tiger is just pretending: he acts as if he was drinkingn bai jiu, but secretly he exchanges the booze with water from a bottle of water (氵) next to him.
late at night
spear
remote / outlying
the earthworm

Words with 寅

third year C3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1986 or 2046
Tang Bohu 唐伯虎 or Tang Yin (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子
thirty-ninth year I3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1962 or 2022
lit. eating away next year's food in advance / fig. to dip into the next month's check / live now, pay later
see 寅吃卯糧|寅吃卯粮[yin2 chi1 mao3 liang2]
3-5 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)
Year 3, year of the Tiger (e.g. 2010)
twenty-seventh year G3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2010 or 2070
fifteenth year E3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1998 or 2058
Moon Jae-in (1953-), Korean politician and human rights lawyer, president of Korea from 2017

Sentences with 寅

寅 currently does not appear in any sentence.