今

now / the present time / current / contemporary / this (day, year etc)

今 = 亽 + ㇇ : A rip off calendar showing today's date: 今

今 = 亽 + ㇇ : Joan of Arc has changed into half-duck half-human being and lives in a tipi in front of the encampment. With her beak, she shows a rip off calender with the date of Armageddon: today.

今 character breakdown

今
- 亼
  - 一
  - 人
    - 丿
    - ㇏
- 亽
  - 丶
  - 人
    - 丿
    - ㇏
- ㇇

亼

jí = ji + Ø2

variant of 集[ji2]

亼 = 一 + 人 : This one looks like a pointed cap.

亽

jí = ji + Ø2

archaic variant of 亼[ji2]

亽

one of the characters used in kwukyel (phonetic "ra"), an ancient Korean writing system

亽 = 丶 + 人 : Looks like a tipi.

㇇

Character component without intrinsic meaning

This one looks like a beak.

Characters with 今 as component

令

lǐng = li + (e)ng3

classifier for a ream of paper

令

lìng = li + (e)ng4

to order / to command / an order / warrant / writ / to cause / to make sth happen / virtuous / honorific title / season / government position (old) / type of short song or poem

令 = 今 + ㇏ : Li Qingzhao has been sent by the emperor to collect rent from the English, but they are nowhere to be found. Finally, Li Qingzhao arrived at the engine's bathroom, ready to show her 令牌, raise the finger and show to the date of payday on the calendar—if there were anyone in the engine's bathroom.

令 = 今 + ㇏ : As a mnemonic symbol, I'm going to use a 令牌, which was a tablet to identify someone as an official sent by the emperor to convey the emperor's orders.

令

líng = li + (e)ng2

used in 脊令[ji2 ling2] / used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4])

念

niàn = ni + an4

to read / to study (a subject) / to attend (a school) / to read aloud / to give (sb) a tongue-lashing (CL:頓|顿[dun4]) / to miss (sb) / idea / remembrance / twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿[nian4])

念 = 今 + 心 : Mnemonic symbol: a lectern to read something aloud.

念

唸

niàn = ni + an4

variant of 念[nian4], to read aloud

念 = 今 + 心 : Mnemonic symbol: a lectern to read something aloud.

含

hán = h + an2

to keep / to contain / to suck (keep in your mouth without chewing)

含 = 今 + 口 : Hamlet (h) caught a cold and in order to cure it, he follows a very strict medicine plan. He put up a rip-off calendar (今) in the anthill's kitchen which shows when he has to put a cough drop (mnemonic symbol for 含) in his mouth (口) to suck (含). The calendar always shows the right date: today (今). Hamlet made the cough drops himself out of mandarins (口).

琴

qín = qi + (e)n2

guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2] (a type of zither) / musical instrument in general

琴 = 今 + 玨 : The Queen of Hearts (qi) is playing her guqin (琴) in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2). She wants to play the music from 200 years ago, so she got a big calendar (今) which shows today's date 200 years ago. On the corresponding calendar page is an image of a 200 year old jewel necklace (玨) which inspires the Queen's music.

琴

琹

qín = qi + (e)n2

variant of 琴[qin2], guqin or zither

贪

貪

ta̅n = t + an1

to have a voracious desire for / to covet / greedy / corrupt

贪 = 今 + 贝 : The crab (贝) is so greedy (贪) that it rented out its shell to Tecumseh (t) to live in in front of the anthill (an1). It can't wait for the first day of the month to appear on its rip-off calendar (今) so that it can go to collect the rent.

侌

yi̅n = y + (e)n1

old variant of 陰|阴[yin1]