surname Guan
hat / crown / crest / cap

= + + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) is busking in front of the anthill (an1). She has a hat (冠) lying in front of her, but the hat is protected by a cooking top (冖). Many passersby give her the thumbs up (寸) or put some coins (元) into her hat.
to put on a hat / to be first / to dub

= + + : After a long day of work Gitta Giraffe (gu) empties her hat (冠) in the anthill's bathroom (an4), puts the coins (元) in her pocket and puts the hat on (冠). She tosses the cooking top (冖) in a corner and gives herself the thumbs up (寸).

冠 character breakdown

surname Yuan / the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / first / original / primary / fundamental / constituent / part / era (of a reign) / meta- (prefix) / (math.) argument / variable / (Tw) (geology) eon

= + : Sun Wu Kong offers Yu the Great a coin just inside the anthill's kitchen. As Yu the Great takes it, she's literally shocked: Sun Wu Kong hooked up a capacitor to it to play a bad joke on her, and he's laughing his ass off.
"cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14), occurring in 軍|军[jun1], 冠[guan1] etc, known as 禿寶蓋|秃宝盖[tu1 bao3 gai4] or 平寶蓋|平宝盖[ping2 bao3 gai4]

Mnemonic symbol: 冖 shall be represented by a cooking top. Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to use the bathroom in the space station (Ø4), but the door is broken! She tries to cover herself with a cooking top (冖) instead.
a unit of length / inch / thumb

= + + : Kitty Cat is playing with a petal leaf in the encampment's bathroom. She's keeping it in the air by hitting it with a flute and a crowbar. It's so much fun that she thinks to herself "thumbs up".
Character component without intrinsic meaning

Characters with 冠 as component

meaning unknown ("herb mentioned in old books") / Japanese variant of 蔻[kou4], cardamom or nutmeg

Words with 冠

indefinite article (e.g. English a, an)
see 冕[mian3]
to label / to call
crest / crown
(bird species of China) oriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris)
(bird species of China) Japanese murrelet (Synthliboramphus wumizusume)
coronary / crown-shaped
coronary (i.e. relating to the coronary arteries or veins) / crown-shaped

Sentences with 冠

冠 currently does not appear in any sentence.