surname Li / abbr. for 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4], Classic of Rites

= + : Li Qingzhao got a present from earth for her birthday while doing experiments in the space station. In the gift box, she found a shovel and a monk's cowl. She uses zero gravity to pretend to be a witch, using the monk's cowl as a witches' cloak and riding the shovel like a broom.
gift / rite / ceremony / CL:份[fen4] / propriety / etiquette / courtesy

= + : Li Qingzhao got a present from earth for her birthday while doing experiments in the space station. In the gift box, she found a shovel and a monk's cowl. She uses zero gravity to pretend to be a witch, using the monk's cowl as a witches' cloak and riding the shovel like a broom.

礼 character breakdown

component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 毫[hao2] / archaic variant of 乙[yi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a shovel (乚). Remember it by imagining Maud Younger (y) shoveling a grave in the ashram's bathroom (a4).
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= + + : A cult: I'll represent this with a monk's cowl in other mnemonics.

Characters with 礼 as component

礼 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 礼

celebration / ceremony
generous gifts
peaceful measures before using force (idiom); diplomacy before violence / jaw-jaw is better than war-war
peer competition / to function as rivals / to make claims as an equal
Rites and Ceremonies, part of the Confucian Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4]
opposite of 先禮後兵|先礼后兵[xian1 li3 hou4 bing1]
restrain yourself and return to the rites (idiom, from Analects); to subdue self and observe proprieties / (any number of possible translations)
(formal) you may dispense with curtseying
circumcision
goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.
humble expression for generous gift
vigorously pursuing knowledge, while scrupulously abiding by the rules of decorum (idiom)
to accept a gift / to acknowledge greetings
the Rites of Zhou (in Confucianism)
circumcision (male or female)
to treat sb with due respect (idiom)
gift given when visiting sb (esp. a local specialty brought back from one's travels, or a special product of one's own country taken overseas) (Tw)
not to reciprocate is against etiquette (classical) / to respond in kind

Sentences with 礼

nà
su̅n
wù
ko̅ng
shì
xià
jiè
xia̅n
rén
 
 
bù
dǒng
tia̅n
tíng
lǐ
jié