12th earthly branch: 9-11 p.m., 10th solar month (7th November-6th December), year of the Boar / ancient Chinese compass point: 330°

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a boar.

= + + : Hamlet is terribly afraid by a beret-wearing boar in the airplane's bathroom, but fortunately Neanderthal man is there to protect him and to fight of the boar with a huge fake nose.

亥 character breakdown

"lid" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 8)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 亠 looks like a beret. Tecumseh (t) is killing time in the Outhouse's kitchen (ou2) by playing a game. His goal is to blow a petal leaf (丶) into a beret (亠) by blowing air through a flute (一).
old variant of 某[mou3]
old variant of 私[si1]

Mnemonic symbol: a fake nose. Socrates (s) is wearing his fake nose (厶) in outer space, in front of the space station (Ø1).
person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: Neanderthal Man (人). Robinson Crusoe (r-) is looking for snacks in the encampment's kitchen (-en2) when he suddenly spots Neanderthal Man (人). Neanderthal Man offers him a banana (丿), but Robinson Crusoe doesn't trust the present and pokes it with a finger (㇏).

Characters with 亥 as component

(bound form) child

= + : Just inside the airplane's kitchen Hamlet is quite annoyed by the love child of the boar and the mosquito.
should / ought to / probably / must be / to deserve / to owe / to be sb's turn to do sth / that / the above-mentioned

= + : In front of the airplane, Guy Fawkes sees an advertisement on an advertising column about a boar which is for sale. He thinks to himself that he should free the animals too. They deserve it.
quarter (hour) / moment / to carve / to engrave / to cut / oppressive / classifier for short time intervals

= + : Mnemonic symbol: an engraver.

The boar cannot believe it when it meets Karl Marx in the elevator's bathroom! Bewildered it asks for an autograph but has nothing except for a kitchen knife and an engraver. It takes Karl Marx a quarter of an hour to engrave his message in the kitchen knife: "Dear boar, keep on fighting capitalism! Yours, Karl."
pit / stone / nucleus / nuclear / to examine / to check / to verify

= + : Hamlet (h) is unpacking the presents he found under the Christmas tree (木) in the elevator's kitchen (e2). He found lots of walnuts (核), but he doesn't know whether there are kernels or stones (核) inside. Fortunately he also unpacked a boar (亥) which sniffs at the walnuts and, after the careful examination (核), tells Hamlet what's inside.
variant of 核[he2] / to investigate

= + : Hamlet (h) is unpacking the presents he found under the Christmas tree (木) in the elevator's kitchen (e2). He found lots of walnuts (核), but he doesn't know whether there are kernels or stones (核) inside. Fortunately he also unpacked a boar (亥) which sniffs at the walnuts and, after the careful examination (核), tells Hamlet what's inside.
sound of sighing / (interjection expressing surprise, sorrow, regret, disappointment etc) oh / damn / wow
cough

= + : Karl Marx (k) caught a tropical kind of tuberculosis and so he coughs and coughs (咳) mandarins (口) in the elevator's kitchen (e2). The boar (亥) is very happy about it as she gets to eat lots and lots of mandarins.
to astonish / to startle / to hack (computing, loanword)
obstruct

= + : In elevator's kitchen (e2) Hamlet (h) confesses to the boar (亥) that he feels kind of estranged (阂) and wants to quickly escape through a trap door (门), but the boar jumps between him and the door and obstructs (阂) the escape way.
to impeach
bones of the body

Words with 亥

sixtieth year J12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1983 or 2043
Year 12, year of the Boar (e.g. 2007)
thirty-sixth year F12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1959 or 2019
forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031 / cf 辛亥革命[Xin1 hai4 Ge2 ming4], Xinhai Revolution of 1911
Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty
twenty-fourth year D12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2007 or 2067
twelfth year B12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1995 or 2055
9-11 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)

Sentences with 亥

亥 currently does not appear in any sentence.