登革熱

登

de̅ng

革

gé

热

熱

rè

dengue fever / Singapore hemorrhagic fever

Characters and words in 登革熱

登

de̅ng = d + (e)ng1

to scale (a height) / to ascend / to mount / to publish or record / to enter (e.g. in a register) / to press down with the foot / to step or tread on / to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect) / to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)

登 = 癶 + 豆 : To finance his adventures, Don Quixote (d) signed a sponsorship contract with a famous company producing canned beans (豆). In front of the engine ((e)ng1) he is scaling (登) a mountain of canned beans while wearing sexy nylons (癶). The character 登 depicts Don Quixote's legs (in nylons) standing on the mountain of canned beans.

革

gé = g + e2

animal hide / leather / to reform / to remove / to expel (from office)

革 = 廿 + 中 + 一 : Mnemonic symbol: a cow's hide.

Guy Fawkes (g) arrived at the entrance to the elevator (e2) to visit this year's darts grand finale. He is standing right next to the dart board (中) and cheers for his favourite player using a self-made drum. The drum consists of a flower pot (廿) over which Guy stretched a cow's hide (革). He is beating his drum using a flute (一).

热

熱

rè = r + e4

to warm up / to heat up / hot (of weather) / heat / fervent

热 = 执 + 灬 : Robinson Crusoe wants to heat himself up in the elevator's bathroom, so he burns his good-for-nothing grilling license on a grill to ignite a sizeable flame.