光

light / ray / CL:道[dao4] / bright / only / merely / to use up

光 = 小 + 兀 : Mnemonic symbol: a laser pointer.

光 = 小 + 兀 : Gitta Giraffe is giving a big concert in front of the anglepod. She set up a lot of laser pointers for the light show, the audience is throwing daisies up to her and she is just rocking her 胡兀尔.

光 character breakdown

光
- 兀
  - 一
  - 儿
    - 丿
    - 乚
- 小
  - 亅
  - 八
    - 丿
    - ㇏
- ⺌
  - 小
    - 亅
    - 八
      - 丿
      - ㇏

兀

wù = w + Ø4

surname Wu

兀

wù = w + Ø4

cut off the feet / rising to a height / towering / bald

兀 = 一 + 儿 : Mnemonic symbol: A 胡兀尔, a kind of Chinese fiddle with four strings, more commonly known as 四胡.

兀 = 一 + 儿 : Sun Wukong is playing his 胡兀尔 in the space station's bathroom, but he's deliberatly playing very badly in order to annoy Willy Walrus. Willy Walrus is so annoyed that he threatens to cut off Sun Wukong's feet with a flute if he doesn't stop.

小

xiǎo = xi + ao3

small / tiny / few / young

小 = 八 + 亅 : Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.

Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).

⺌

Character component without intrinsic meaning

Mnemonic symbol: ⺌ looks a bit like an aloe vera plant. Marie Curie planted aloe vera plants in the aorta's living room.

Characters with 光 as component

耀

yào = y + ao4

brilliant / glorious

耀 = 光 + 翟 : Maud Younger (y) shines (耀) with a laser pointer (光) at the featers of the long-tail pheasant (翟) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4), and under this illumination (耀) the featers look even awesomer (耀).

辉

輝

hui̅ = hu + ei1

splendor / to shine upon

辉 = 光 + 军 : Helga Horse (hu) is being harassed by the general (军) in front of the Eiffel Tower (ei1). The general shines (辉) with a laser pointer (光) into her eye, and Helga has no other choice but to compliment him on this splendid (辉) sight.

晃

huàng = hu + ang4

to sway / to shake / to wander about

晃 = 光 + 日 : Helga Horse (hu) blinds the sun (日) with a laser pointer (光) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). Because the sun is blinded it sways (晃) and shakes (晃).

晃

huǎng = hu + ang3

to dazzle / to flash past

晃 = 光 + 日 : The sun (日) dazzles (晃) and flashes past (晃) Helga Horse (hu) in the anglepod (ang3) snatching away her laser pointer (光) because the sun would like to be the only one being able to blind others.

晃

㨪

huǎng = hu + ang3

variant of 晃[huang3]

恍

huǎng = hu + ang3

disappointed / flurried / indistinct

恍 = 光 + 忄 : Inside the anglepod (ang3) Helga Horse (hu) thought it would be a great idea to attach laser pointers (光) to the tip of her flail (忄), but as she gets a beam right into her eye she suddenly realizes (恍) that it wasn't such a great idea after all and is quite disappointed (恍).

恍

怳

huǎng = hu + ang3

variant of 恍[huang3]