to develop / to evolve / to practice / to perform / to play / to act

= + : Maud Younger (y) and her plush tiger (寅) are drinking inside of the anthill (an3). Maud is drinking bai jiu, but her plush tiger is just pretending: he acts as if he was drinkingn bai jiu, but secretly he exchanges the booze with water from a bottle of water (氵) next to him.

演 character breakdown

3rd earthly branch: 3-5 a.m., 1st solar month (4th February-5th March), year of the Tiger / ancient Chinese compass point: 60°

= + + + : Mnemonic symbol: a plush tiger.

Maud Younger (y) and her plush tiger (寅) just graduated. Wearing their graduation hats (宀) they come out of the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2) where they had to study for years and celebrate their new freedom by drinking cuba libres (由). They also are overjoyed that finally they can spend their time just having fun: the plush tiger uses a flute (一) as a bat to shoot an eightball (八) into Maud's direction, who catches it using her graduation cap as baseball glove.
"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 沒|没[mei2], 法[fa3], 流[liu2] etc / see also 三點水|三点水[san1 dian3 shui3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bottle of water. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) enjoys a bottle of water (氵) in the Eiffel Tower's living room (ei3). The got the water by scratching (㇀) a blossom (⺀) and catching the leaking dew in a bottle.

Characters with 演 as component

演 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 演

to screen (a movie) / to stage (a play) / a screening / a staging
to appear (in a show etc) / an appearance (on stage etc)
to perform (e.g. on the stage) / to lecture
to perform in public; to give a performance
to put on extra shows; to extend the run (of a show) / to include an additional element in a show
encore / to give an extra performance
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中[Luo2 Guan4 zhong1], one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备[Liu2 Bei4] Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4] as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操[Cao2 Cao1] Wei 魏[Wei4] as villains
to act the leading role (in a movie or a play) / to star / lead actor

Sentences with 演

演 currently does not appear in any sentence.