缶
pottery
缶
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午
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山
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Frankenstein's Monster (f) is showing off his art skills right in the middle of the outhouse (ou3). He prepared some pottery (缶) to look at, but that's not all: when the bell tolls at noon, he takes a fork (山) and eats his pottery for lunch (午) as the central element of his art performance.
缶 character breakdown
7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse / ancient Chinese compass point: 180° (south)
mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable
山
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丨
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凵
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Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.
Characters with 缶 as component
deficiency / lack / scarce / vacant post / to run short of
缺
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夬
+
缶
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Cupid (qu) has almost all pottery pots (缶) of a collection of twelve, but the seventh piece is missing (缺). He asks a crystal ball (夬) I'm front of the elevator (e1): where is the missing piece? The crystal ball replies that he smashed it when he came back totally drunk the night before.
to shake / to rock / to row / to crank
摇
=
扌
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爫
+
缶
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The aorta has been flooded, and Maud Younger (y) takes the opportunity to establish a new business. She connects many floating pottery (缶) bowls using toy claws (扌) and in this way builds a small raft. On this raft she is ready to shave anyone's head for a small fee using her electric razor (爫), but as she is floating through the aorta's kitchen (ao2) she notices that not only the raft is very shaky and wobbly (摇), but also that there is no electricity available and the razor's batteries are already dead.
surname Yao
摇
=
扌
+
爫
+
缶
:
The aorta has been flooded, and Maud Younger (y) takes the opportunity to establish a new business. She connects many floating pottery (缶) bowls using toy claws (扌) and in this way builds a small raft. On this raft she is ready to shave anyone's head for a small fee using her electric razor (爫), but as she is floating through the aorta's kitchen (ao2) she notices that not only the raft is very shaky and wobbly (摇), but also that there is no electricity available and the razor's batteries are already dead.
popular ballad / rumor
谣
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讠
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爫
+
缶
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Maud Younger (y) is reading about a fascinating rumor (谣) on an advertising column (讠) just inside the aorta's kitchen (ao2). It is written that old pottery (缶) can be made as new using an electric razor (爫). Maud Younger tries the method immediately but breaks almost every piece of pottery she tries to renovate with her electric razor.
Words with 缶
Sentences with 缶
缶 currently does not appear in any sentence.