to mow or cut grass / hay / straw / fodder

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a lawn mower.

Just inside the space station's entrance the crane and Chantal Chicken are using a lawn mower to shred pig snouts to pieces so that they can pick up and eat the pieces.

芻 character breakdown

archaic variant of 包[bao1]

= 丿 + : 勹 looks like an elephant: 丿 looks like the edge of the ear and ㇆ looks like the head and trunk.

Beelzebub (b) rides an elephant in front of the aorta (ao1), turning the soil with a plow (㇆). Lots of bananas (丿) are revealed in the turned earth.
plants sprouting

I don't know but somehow I have to think of a thornbush when looking at this character. Maybe because it looks so spiky. To make things interesting let's say this represents a burning thornbush talking to people. The burning thornbush talks to Charlie Chaplin (ch) in the elevator's bathroom (e4) and tells him what to do, but Charlie won't listen.

Characters with 芻 as component

to hasten / to hurry / to walk fast / to approach / to tend towards / to converge

= + : Cupid (qu) loves to do Nordic walking (走) in front of the space station (Ø1), but today he has to move a lot faster (趋) than usually, otherwise the gardener will catch him with his lawn mower (刍).
to wrinkle / wrinkled / to crease

= + : James II of England (zh) found he has lots of wrinkles (皱). In the outhouse's bathroom (ou4) he takes the quite drastic measure to cut out his wrinkles using a lawn mower (刍) shaving over his skin (皮).
surname Zou / vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC) in the southeast of Shandong Province
chick / young bird
groom or chariot driver employed by a noble (old)
surname Zou
crepe / wrinkle
old variant of 芻|刍[chu2]
pregnant woman (archaic)
pluck (stringed instrument)
basket for straining / to strain
to make up (a story) / Taiwan pr. [zou1]
chick / young bird

Words with 芻

to ruminate / to chew the cud
lit. to wear one's coat inside out and carry firewood on one's back (idiom) / fig. to live a life of poverty and hard work / fig. to act stupidly
army provisions
to mow grass and cut firewood / grass mower / woodman
lit. grass-cutter's comment (humble); fig. my observation as a humble layman / my humble opinion
livestock / farm animals

Sentences with 芻

芻 currently does not appear in any sentence.