冃

mào = m + ao4

old variant of 帽[mao4] / hat / cap

冃 = 冂 + 二 : A basecap. Mahatma Gandhi is looking at a map (冂) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4). There is a sign clearly stating that for hygienic reasons the map is not to be touched, but Mahatma Gandhi touches it anyway and gets shocked immediately by an attached capacitor (二). He gets shocked so terribly that his basecap (冃) jumps off of his head.

冃 character breakdown

冃
- 二
  - 一
- 冂
  - 丨
  - ㇆
    - 一
    - 亅

二

èr = Ø + Ø4

two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid

二 = 一 : Mnemonic symbol: a capacitor, because the two strokes remind me of the symbol in electrical drawings. Albert Einstein (Ø) is experimenting with a capacitor (二) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He finds that it's uncomfortable to discharge a capacitor using two flutes (一).

冂

jio̅ng = ju + (e)ng1

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13), occurring in 用[yong4], 同[tong2], 網|网[wang3] etc, referred to as 同字框[tong2 zi4 kuang4]

冂 = 丨 + ㇆ : Kind of looks like a map. Zeus found a secret map that tells the location of a golden dinosaur bone in front of the engine, so he took a plough and digged up everything. He actually found a couple of dinosaur bones, but not a golden one.

Characters with 冃 as component

冒

mào = m + ao4

surname Mao

冒 = 冃 + 目 : Mahatma Gandhi (m) caught a cold (冒) and as he sneezes ("冒") in the aorta's bathroom (ao4), he sneezes so vividly that he sneezes off the eye of providence's (目) basecap (冃) of its head.

冒

mào = m + ao4

to emit / to give off / to send out (or up, forth) / to brave / to face / reckless / to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc) / to feign / (literary) to cover