old variant of 寇[kou4]
old variant of 寇[kou4]
to invade / to plunder / bandit / foe / enemy

寇 character breakdown

surname Yuan / the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / first / original / primary / fundamental / constituent / part / era (of a reign) / meta- (prefix) / (math.) argument / variable / (Tw) (geology) eon

= + : Sun Wu Kong offers Yu the Great a coin just inside the anthill's kitchen. As Yu the Great takes it, she's literally shocked: Sun Wu Kong hooked up a capacitor to it to play a bad joke on her, and he's laughing his ass off.
"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character look like a graduation cap (宀). Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to go to the anthill after her graduation from university. In the anthill's kitchen (an2), her friends snatch away her graduation cap (宀), and instead put a cooking top (冖) and a petal leaf (丶) on her head.
to tap / to knock lightly / old variant of 撲|扑[pu1]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a door knocker. Petra Penguin (pu) locked herself out of the space station (Ø1). She tries to get the others' attention by waving with a pennant (⺊) and knocking (攴) against the window with a boxing glove (又). Finally she uses a door knocker (攴) to knock on the door.

Characters with 寇 as component

see 肉豆蔻 nutmeg, 豆蔻 cardamon
healds of a loom

Words with 寇

Japanese pirates (in 16th and 17th century)
the winners become princes and marquises; the losers are vilified as bandits (idiom) / history is written by the victors
two-character surname Sikou
minister of criminal justice (official rank in imperial China)
to rob and steal
see 庫布里克|库布里克[Ku4 bu4 li3 ke4]
Kou Zhun (961-1023), Northern Song politician and poet
lit. called a king if successful, called a bandit if defeated (idiom) / fig. losers are always in the wrong
see 成則為王,敗則為寇|成则为王,败则为寇[cheng2 ze2 wei2 wang2 , bai4 ze2 wei2 kou4]
see 成則為王,敗則為寇|成则为王,败则为寇[cheng2 ze2 wei2 wang2 , bai4 ze2 wei2 kou4]

Sentences with 寇

寇 currently does not appear in any sentence.