帶

dài = d + ai4

band / belt / girdle / ribbon / tire / area / zone / region / CL:條|条[tiao2] / to wear / to carry / to take along / to bear (i.e. to have) / to lead / to bring / to look after / to raise

带 = 卅 + 冖 + 巾 : Don Quixote purchased thirty cooking tops in the airplane's bathroom to build new armor out of them. Now the question is: how does he get them home? Finally he has a good idea: He spreads out a towel on the floor, stacks the thirty cooking tops as a pyramid and pulls the towel with a belt. It works! This way he can bring them back to his place.

帶 character breakdown

帶
- 冖
- 卌
- 巾
  - 丨
  - 冂
    - 丨
    - ㇆
      - 一
      - 亅

冖

mì = mi + Ø4

"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.

卌

xì = xi + Ø4

forty

巾

ji̅n = ji + (e)n1

towel / general purpose cloth / women's headcovering (old) / Kangxi radical 50

巾 = 丨 + 冂 : Joan of Arc has smuggled a dinosaur bone out of the encampment. To hide it, she covered it in maps and towels.

Characters with 帶 as component

蒂

蔕

dì = di + Ø4

variant of 蒂[di4]

蒂 = 艹 + 帝 : Dorothy Gale (di) is lying on a sheet of artificial lawn (艹) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), and Caesar (帝) is looking for her cigarette butt (蒂).

滞

滯

zhì = zh + Ø4

sluggish

滞 = 氵 + 卅 + 冖 + 巾 : James II of England (zh) has stacked thirty (卅) cooking tops (冖) as a pyramid on top of a towel (巾) on the floor of the space station bathroom (Ø4), and sluggishly (滞) pulls the towel with a belt (带). He soaks the towel in water from a bottle of water (氵) to make it slide more easily.

𣨼

殢

tì = ti + Ø4

fatigue

艜

dài = d + ai4

a long narrow vessel with two masts

䗖

螮

dì = di + Ø4

rainbow

遰