歹
歹 character breakdown
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
dusk / evening / Taiwan pr. [xi4]
Mnemonic symbol: this character looks a bit like a bat, and bats come out of their caves at dusk. I could see the upper left 丿 as part of the bat's right wing, ㇇ as the body/head and 丶 as the eye of the bat.
Xi Shi (xi) goes out for a space walk in front of the space station (Ø1) in the evening (夕), where she observes a space bat.
Xi Shi (xi) goes out for a space walk in front of the space station (Ø1) in the evening (夕), where she observes a space bat.
Characters with 歹 as component
to arrange / to line up / file / series / (in data tables) column / (Tw) row
列
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刂
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歹
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Mnemonic symbol: archangel Gabriel, 加百列.
The apocalypse has come, and archangel Gabriel (列) came down from heaven with his list (列) of people who are accepted. In the elevator's bathroom (e4) he tells Li Qingzhao (li) that she's on his list, and he tells the wicked witch (歹) that she's not. The wicked witch freaks out and takes Li Qingzhao as her hostage holding a kitchen knife (刂) to Qingzhao's throat.
The apocalypse has come, and archangel Gabriel (列) came down from heaven with his list (列) of people who are accepted. In the elevator's bathroom (e4) he tells Li Qingzhao (li) that she's on his list, and he tells the wicked witch (歹) that she's not. The wicked witch freaks out and takes Li Qingzhao as her hostage holding a kitchen knife (刂) to Qingzhao's throat.
different / unique / special / very / (classical) to behead / to die / to cut off / to separate / to surpass
殊
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朱
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歹
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The wicked witch (歹) sentenced Sheldon Shrimp (shu) to be beheaded (殊) in front of the space station (Ø1), but a vermilion flycatcher (朱) is going to help him. Since the witch is very short-sighted, the bird sits on Sheldon's shoulders acting as his head, flying down as the blade falls down while Sheldon's head is actually behind the guillotine. To the witch it looked like Sheldon's head fell down.
to destroy / to spoil / to ruin / to injure / cruel / oppressive / savage / brutal / incomplete / disabled / to remain / to survive / remnant / surplus
残
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戋
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歹
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The King of Chu (c) invited the wicked witch (歹) to try his floating tank (戋) in the anthill's kitchen (an2) and without waiting he pushed the wicked witch in and closed the lid. After a while he checked on her and found to only the complete tank, but also the wicked witch absolutely ruined (残).
Words with 歹
unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom) / not to know what's good for one / unable to recognize others' good intentions
to persuade using all possible arguments (idiom); to act good cop and bad cop in turn
to try one's very best to persuade sb (idiom) / to reason with sb in every way possible
(idiom) to try one's very best to persuade sb; to reason with sb in every way possible
Sentences with 歹
歹 currently does not appear in any sentence.