abbr. for Xiamen or Amoy 廈門|厦门[Xia4 men2], Fujian
tall building / mansion / rear annex / lean-to / also pr. [xia4]

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) wants to investigate the chocolate factory (厂) in the ashram's bathroom (a4), but it is located on a tall building (厦). He cannot climb the tall building alone, so he asks a sherpa (夏) for help.

廈 character breakdown

the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC / Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407-432) / surname Xia

= 𦣻 + : Mnemonic symbol: a sherpa, 夏尔巴人.

Marie Curie (xi) gives a sherpa (夏) 100 bucks (𦣻) to play a summer song on his flute (𦣻) and dance on high heels (夂) in the ashram's bathroom (a4).
summer

= 𦣻 + : Mnemonic symbol: a sherpa, 夏尔巴人.

Marie Curie (xi) gives a sherpa (夏) 100 bucks (𦣻) to play a summer song on his flute (𦣻) and dance on high heels (夂) in the ashram's bathroom (a4).
"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc
surname Guang

广 = + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.
wide / numerous / to spread

广 = + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.

Characters with 廈 as component

廈 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 廈

(used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝國大廈|帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc)
Xiamen or Amoy, subprovincial city in Fujian, abbr. 廈|厦[Xia4]
great mansion on the verge of collapse (idiom); hopeless situation
Empire State Building (New York City)
Xiamen, subprovincial city in Fujian / also known as Amoy
Jin Mao Tower, skyscraper in Shanghai
side annex / lean-to
government of Tibet, dissolved in 1959

Sentences with 廈

廈 currently does not appear in any sentence.