久

(long) time / (long) duration of time

久 = ㇏ + 勹 : Mnemonic symbol: hourglass.

久 = ㇏ + 勹 : Joan of Arc and the elephant are visiting the outhouse, and they have been looking at the Mona Lisa for hours. Impatiently, Joan of Arc looks at her hourglass telling them that they have been standing there like that for three and a half hours, so she's poking the elephant with a finger to tell him to move on.

久 character breakdown

久
- 勹
  - 丿
  - ㇆
    - 一
    - 亅
- ㇏

勹

ba̅o = b + ao1

archaic variant of 包[bao1]

勹 = 丿 + ㇆ : 勹 looks like an elephant: 丿 looks like the edge of the ear and ㇆ looks like the head and trunk.

Beelzebub (b) rides an elephant in front of the aorta (ao1), turning the soil with a plow (㇆). Lots of bananas (丿) are revealed in the turned earth.

㇏

nà = n + a4

Right-falling stroke

Mnemonic symbol: this one looks like a finger.

Napoleon (n) is giving you the finger (㇏) in the ashram's bathroom (a4).

Characters with 久 as component

亩

畝

mǔ = mu + Ø3

classifier for fields / unit of area equal to one fifteenth of a hectare

亩 = 亠 + 田 : When Malte Monkey (mu) was tilling his field (田) in the space station he lost his beret (亠) and now it must be buried under the earth. He'll have to search the whole field. Too bad for him that he has a whole hectare (亩) to search.

亩

畂

mǔ = mu + Ø3

old variant of 畝|亩[mu3]

灸

jiǔ = ji + ou3

moxibustion (TCM)

玖

jiǔ = ji + ou3

black jade / nine (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

疚

jiù = ji + ou4