己

jǐ = ji + Ø3

self / oneself / sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / sixth in order / letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / hexa

This character looks like a butcher's hook. In the space station, Joan of Arc wants to conduct an experiment about a sixth order chaotic pendulum. First she hooks a butcher's hook to a sickle, then sticks the sickle's end into a flute, and finally hooks the handle of a shovel into the last hole of the flute. She then swings the chaotic pendulum to observe its behaviour.

己 character breakdown

The character 己 cannot be broken down into individual components.

Characters with 己 as component

起

qǐ = qi + Ø3

to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group

起 = 己 + 走 : The Queen of Hearts is bored in the space station and plays a game involving a nordic walking pole and butcher's hooks. She uses the nordic walking pole to accelerate the hooks and fires them off once they have enough momentum.

记

記

jì = ji + Ø4

to record / to note / to memorize / to remember / mark / sign / classifier for blows, kicks, shots

记 = 己 + 讠 : In the space station's bathroom, Joan of Arc sees an advertisement on an advertising column. There are some butcher's hooks advertised which she thinks will be useful on her quest against the king of England, so she takes a voice memo to remind herself to obtain some of the butcher's hooks.

改

gǎi = g + ai3

to change / to alter / to transform / to correct

改 = 己 + 攵 : Guy Fawkes rose to power in the airplane and the first thing he wants to do is to change the throne. He used a butcher's hook to scratch the jewels out of the golden throne. Now he uses a sledgehammer to change the throne into a new form, that is, a pile of garbage.

配

pèi = p + ei4

to join / to fit / to mate / to mix / to match / to deserve / to make up (a prescription) / to allocate

配 = 己 + 酉 : Pinocchio (p) helps the rooster (酉) build a new nest in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4). They collected a heap of matches (配) and are now in the process of arranging the matches with butcher's hooks (己) so that the nest nicely fits (配) to the rooster's back.

纪

紀

jǐ = ji + Ø3

surname Ji / also pr. [Ji4]

纪

紀

jì = ji + Ø4

order / discipline / age / era / period / to chronicle

纪 = 己 + 纟 : Joan of Arc finds the space station's bathroom full of silken threads. She even cannot accomplish much using a butcher's hook. She knows that the silk worms are responsible and thinks that soon it will be the era of the silk worms.

异

異

yì = y + Ø4

different / other / hetero- / unusual / strange / surprising / to distinguish / to separate / to discriminate

異 = 共 + 田 : Maud Younger (y) has been sent off to help the communist (共) tending the field (田) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). She proves very helpful as her secret strange super power (mnemonic symbol for 異), xray vision, helps her see whether the potatoes are ready or not.

异 = 巳 + 廾 : Maud Younger sees a wyvern in the space station's bathroom and thinks it's soo strange that there's a wyvern in the space station. But after all, it's just the lab snake which ate a double axe.

岂

豈

qǐ = qi + Ø3

how? (emphatic question)

岂 = 山 + 己 : Instead of doing experiments the Queen of Hearts (qi) is idly playing with a fork (山) and a butcher's hook (己) in the space station (Ø3). The people at ground control keep asking the same question: how can this be (岂有此理)?

岂

豈

kǎi = k + ai3

old variant of 愷|恺[kai3] / old variant of 凱|凯[kai3]

巽

xùn = xu + (e)n4

to obey / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing wood and wind / ☴ / ancient Chinese compass point: 135° (southeast)

忌

jì = ji + Ø4

to be jealous of / fear / dread / scruple / to avoid or abstain from / to quit / to give up sth

忌 = 己 + 心 : Joan of Arc (ji) wants to just give up (忌), so in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) she pulls out her heart (心) using a butcher's hook (己).

妃

fe̅i = f + ei1

imperial concubine