Phellodendron amurense

檗 character breakdown

surname Mu
tree / wood / coffin / wooden / simple / numb / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a Christmas tree. Malte Monkey is putting up a Christmas tree (木) in the bathroom of the space station (Ø4). He's using a cross (十) as a base to put the tree on, and decorates the tree with eight-balls (八).
king / monarch / to enlist / to repel / to avoid
law / variant of 闢|辟[pi4]
to open (a door) / to open up (for development) / to dispel / to refute / to repudiate

= + + : Mnemonic symbol from 辟邪, to ward of evil: a jade dragon, because this is what you get if you google image search 辟邪. Pocahontas (pi) stored some delicious kimchi (辛) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), and a ghost (尸) is trying to eat it all in one gulp. Pocahontas is prepared though and uses a jade dragon (辟) to fend off (辟) the ghost. She does throw a mandarin (口) to the desperate ghost though.
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

Characters with 檗 as component

shoots from an old stump

Words with 檗

Amur cork tree (Phellodendron amurense) / cork-tree bark (Chinese medicine)

Sentences with 檗

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