surname Chou

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) finds a very ugly (丑) ox (丑) in the outhouse (ou3) and decides to destroy it with a cleaver (刀) because it is so ugly. He'll soon notice that the ox has been hooked up to a charged capacitor (二) so that anyone trying to damage it will be shocked.
clown / 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox / ancient Chinese compass point: 30°

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) finds a very ugly (丑) ox (丑) in the outhouse (ou3) and decides to destroy it with a cleaver (刀) because it is so ugly. He'll soon notice that the ox has been hooked up to a charged capacitor (二) so that anyone trying to damage it will be shocked.
shameful / ugly / disgraceful

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) finds a very ugly (丑) ox (丑) in the outhouse (ou3) and decides to destroy it with a cleaver (刀) because it is so ugly. He'll soon notice that the ox has been hooked up to a charged capacitor (二) so that anyone trying to damage it will be shocked.

丑 character breakdown

two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid

= : Mnemonic symbol: a capacitor, because the two strokes remind me of the symbol in electrical drawings. Albert Einstein (Ø) is experimenting with a capacitor (二) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He finds that it's uncomfortable to discharge a capacitor using two flutes (一).
surname Dao
knife / blade / single-edged sword / cutlass / CL:把[ba3] / (slang) dollar (loanword) / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs

= + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: 刀 looks like a cleaver (while 刂 looks like a kitchen knife).

Don Quixote (d) serves his good deed of the day in front of the aorta (ao1). In order to feed the people, he uses a plow (㇆) to dig up bananas (丿), and cuts them into slices with a broad cleaver (刀).

Characters with 丑 as component

to turn / to twist / to wring / to sprain / to swing one's hips

= + : An ugly ox (丑) is charging at Nefertiti (ni) in the outhouse (ou3), but Nefertiti just swings her hips (扭) and turns him around (扭) using a toy claw (扌).
to turn / to wrench / button / nu (Greek letter Νν)

= + : The ugly ox (丑) complained about his itching belly button (纽) in front of Nefertiti (ni) in the outhouse (ou3). Promptly Nefertiti turns (纽) him around and finds that there is a silk worm (纟) looking out of his belly button (纽), which she pulls out with a wrench (纽).
mourning garments
to decline / to wane / to become weak or feeble

= + : Sheldon Shrimp (shu) is feeling very awkward in front of the airplane (ai1). He is on a date with an ox (丑), but the oxen's kilt (衣) is so old and feeble (衰) that it is falling apart.
shy / ashamed / shame / bashful / variant of 饈|馐[xiu1] / delicacies

= + : Marie Curie (xi) arranged a blind date for two friends in front of the outhouse (ou1). The two friends are an ox (丑) and a sheep (羊). As they see each other for the first time, both are very shy (羞).
surname Niu
button
girl
handcuffs / red apricot
handcuffs

Words with 丑

shameful / scandalous / to be humiliated / to make a fool of sb or oneself / to make sb lose face
clown role in opera / clown / buffoon
(bird species of China) harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus)
second year B2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1985 or 2045
a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)
grotesque / extremely ugly / hideous
extremely ugly / incomparably hideous
see 兒不嫌母醜,狗不嫌家貧|儿不嫌母丑,狗不嫌家贫[er2 bu4 xian2 mu3 chou3 , gou3 bu4 xian2 jia1 pin2]
first two of the twelve earthly branches 十二地支 / by ext., the earthly branches
fourteenth year D2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1997 or 2057
1-3 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)
Year 2, year of the Bull or Ox (e.g. 2009)

Sentences with 丑

丑 currently does not appear in any sentence.