precipice / cliff / Taiwan pr. [yai2]

= + : Maud Younger (y) has been eating chocolate bars (厓) with a fork (山) in the ashram's kitchen (a2) for hours now. She throws the packaging just over her shoulder, where already a precipitous (崖) cliff (崖) has formed from all the plastic.

崖 character breakdown

old form of 崖 (cliff) and 涯 (bank)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a chocolate bar.

Maud Younger (y) used to create fake chocolate bars (厓) in the ashram's kitchen (a2) by having jade tablets (圭) run through a chocolate factory (厂). She was found out though and pushed over a cliff (厓) as punishment.
surname Shan
mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable

= + : 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 崖 as component

to growl (of dog) / to bare fangs
old variant of 涯[ya2]

Words with 崖

escarpment / precipice / cliff
valley / gulley
cliff / steep slope / fig. arrogant and difficult person
ancient name for Hainan Island 海南島|海南岛[Hai3 nan2 Dao3]
(bird species of China) sand martin (Riparia riparia)
(bird species of China) common murre (Uria aalge)
(literary) outline; general idea; rough sketch
valley / ravine
cliff barring the way / fig. brick wall
rock carving / cliff engraving / words carved into cliff face

Sentences with 崖

崖 currently does not appear in any sentence.