handsome / refined / elegant / graceful / superior / show (loanword) / CL:場|场[chang2] / (literary) to grow / to bloom / (of crops) to produce ears

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a talent show.

Marie Curie (xi) is preparing for her performance (秀) in a talent show (秀) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4). She will be juggling lots of bowls of cereals (禾) without spilling the cereals. Her secret is that she convinced a poltergeist (乃) to help her, which will make itself invisible during the show and handle the cereals for her.

秀 character breakdown

to be / thus / so / therefore / then / only / thereupon

A poltergeist. The poltergeist is wearing a hood and stretching out his arms as he is moving to the right hand side.
variant of 乃[nai3]
cereal / grain

= 丿 + : A bowl of cereals. Hamlet made himself a bowl of cereals with bananas and a Christmas tree just inside the elevator's kitchen. He thinks the elevator's kitchen is a stage, and holds the bowl of cereals like he would hold Yorick's skull.

Characters with 秀 as component

to penetrate / to pass through / thoroughly / completely / transparent / to appear / to show

= + : Tecumseh (t) is taking part in a talent show (秀) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4). His performance involves him dancing in gladiator sandals (辶) and using the sandals to penetrate (透) and smash all kinds of barriers made of concrete, steel, and your worst enemy.
(bound form) to penetrate; to seep through / to tell secretly; to leak / thoroughly; through and through / to appear; to show
variant of 繡|绣[xiu4]

= + : Marie Curie (xi) is preparing for an embroidery (绣) talent show (秀) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4). She prepares by hiding a silk worm (纟) in her sleeve which will secretly do all the embroidering for her.
to embroider / embroidery

= + : Marie Curie (xi) is preparing for an embroidery (绣) talent show (秀) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4). She prepares by hiding a silk worm (纟) in her sleeve which will secretly do all the embroidering for her.
to entice / to tempt

= + : Maud Younger (y) is about to be lured into (诱) a talent show (秀) by an ad on an advertising column (讠) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4).
to corrode / to rust

= + : Marie Curie (xi) is demonstrating in a talent show (秀) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4) how she can magically remove the rust (锈) from a golden harpoon (钅) by dipping it in the toilet. Her secret is that she poured the right chemicals in the toilet earlier.
(jade)
Setaria viridis / vicious

Words with 秀

outstanding / excellent
outstanding; excellent
to show off (loanword, from English "show") / to grandstand / to perform in a stage show
well-favored / elegant / pretty
lit. only one branch of the tree is thriving (idiom) / fig. to be in a league of one's own / outstanding
beautiful / graceful
girl from a wealthy family / unmarried daughter of a noble house
dinner show / dinner and floor show
Yixiu district of Anqing city 安慶市|安庆市[An1 qing4 shi4], Anhui
dinner show / dinner and floor show

Sentences with 秀

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