towel / general purpose cloth / women's headcovering (old) / Kangxi radical 50

= + : Joan of Arc has smuggled a dinosaur bone out of the encampment. To hide it, she covered it in maps and towels.

巾 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Gitta Giraffe (gu-) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's living room ((e)n3).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13), occurring in 用[yong4], 同[tong2], 網|网[wang3] etc, referred to as 同字框[tong2 zi4 kuang4]

= + : Kind of looks like a map. Zeus found a secret map that tells the location of a golden dinosaur bone in front of the engine, so he took a plough and digged up everything. He actually found a couple of dinosaur bones, but not a golden one.

Characters with 巾 as component

to suspend / to hang up / to hang a person

= + : Dorothy Gale is travelling and tries to find a way to hang up her towel in the aorta's bathroom. Finally, she came up with something: She forges a coat hanger out of mandarin peel and hangs her towel on it.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a coat hanger.
a string of 100 cash (arch.) / to lament / to condole with / variant of 吊[diao4]
variant of 匝[za1]

= + : Mnemonic symbol from circuit -> defibrillator, because it is used to short circuit the heart.

= + : Zorro (z) built a racing circuit (匝) in front of the ashram (a1) by connecting two freeway ramps (匝). After the racing training he keeps his racehorse in a metal box (匚) and wipes the sweat from his face and from his horse with a towel (巾).

= + : Zorro found a dinosaur bone in front of the ashram. He thinks that this is what whole living dinosaurs actually looked like, so he puts it on a towel and uses a flute as a cushion so that one end is slightly lifted. Then he tries to revive the dinosaur bone with a defibrillator.
to help / to assist / to support / for sb (i.e. as a help) / hired (as worker) / side (of pail, boat etc) / outer layer / upper (of a shoe) / group / gang / clique / party / secret society

= + : Liu Bang won the cage battle in front of the anglepod (see 邦), and in the end Beelzebub helps him climb out of the cage, handing him a towel.
old variant of 幫|帮[bang1]

= + : Liu Bang won the cage battle in front of the anglepod (see 邦), and in the end Beelzebub helps him climb out of the cage, handing him a towel.
old variant of 幫|帮[bang1]

= + : Liu Bang won the cage battle in front of the anglepod (see 邦), and in the end Beelzebub helps him climb out of the cage, handing him a towel.
market / city / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a supermarket.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) started a supermarket (市) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but all he has for sale right now are berets (亠) and towels (巾). He should have opened it at the beach!
band / belt / girdle / ribbon / tire / area / zone / region / CL:條|条[tiao2] / to wear / to carry / to take along / to bear (i.e. to have) / to lead / to bring / to look after / to raise

= + + : Don Quixote purchased thirty cooking tops in the airplane's bathroom to build new armor out of them. Now the question is: how does he get them home? Finally he has a good idea: He spreads out a towel on the floor, stacks the thirty cooking tops as a pyramid and pulls the towel with a belt. It works! This way he can bring them back to his place.
cloth / to declare / to announce / to spread / to make known

= 𠂇 + : Mnemonic symbol: The scissors cut a towel into stripes, which can be used as eye mask.

= 𠂇 + : In the space station's bathroom, Bruno Bear is cutting a towel into stripes. He wants to use the stripes as eye masks and make the world a better place, helping people as a new super hero.
variant of 布[bu4] / to announce / to spread
system / to control / to regulate / variant of 製|制[zhi4]
to manufacture / to make

= + + : James II of England (zh) and the bull (牛) have to work in a sweatshop in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) where they manufacture (制) one printed circuit board (制) after the other. Their only tools are kitchen knives (刂) with which they carve the boards. They sweat a lot, so each of them has a towel (巾) wrapped around their neck.
money / coins / currency / silk

= 丿 + : Brunhilde (bi) wants to take a shower in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). Wearing only a towel (巾) she is fiddling with the coin (币) operated switch. She is to greedy to use a real coin, so she inserts a fake one. The machine detects the fake coin though and instead of water there are bananas (丿) coming out of the shower head.
woven mat / seat / banquet / place in a democratic assembly / classifier for banquets, conversations etc

= 广 + 廿 + : Marie Curie (xi) prepares to go back to earth and is ready to dash out of the space station's entrance (Ø2) at any moment. She fixed a parachute (广) to a woven seating mat (席), effectively seating her in an ejection seat. As a helmet she wears a flower pot (廿) on her head, and for style she added a towel (巾) which she fixed to her shoulders to wear as super hero cape.
surname Xi

= 广 + 廿 + : Marie Curie (xi) prepares to go back to earth and is ready to dash out of the space station's entrance (Ø2) at any moment. She fixed a parachute (广) to a woven seating mat (席), effectively seating her in an ejection seat. As a helmet she wears a flower pot (廿) on her head, and for style she added a towel (巾) which she fixed to her shoulders to wear as super hero cape.

Words with 巾

scarf / shawl / CL:條|条[tiao2]
hand towel / handkerchief
woman / woman's headdress (ancient)
headscarf / turban
(coll.) sanitary towel
(coll.) menstrual pad
see 戴綠帽子|戴绿帽子[dai4 lü4 mao4 zi5]
headband / strip of cloth worn around the head
sling (for a wounded arm)

Sentences with 巾

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