老骥伏枥，志在千里

老
老
骥
驥
伏
伏
枥
櫪
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志
志
在
在
千
千
里
里
lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. old people may still cherish high aspirations

Characters and words in 老骥伏枥，志在千里

老
lǎo = l + ao3
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough
老 = ⺹ + 匕 : Lancelot (l) is showing his respect to grandpa (老) in the aorta's living room (ao3). He's bowing deep and offering a crown (⺹), but grandpa refuses by hitting Lancelot on the head with a ladle (匕).
老
老
骥
驥
old thoroughbred / fig. aged person with great aspirations
骥
驥
jì = ji + Ø4
thoroughbred horse / refined and virtuous
伏
fú = fu + Ø2
surname Fu
伏 = 亻 + 犬 : A camouflage net.
伏 = 亻 + 犬 : Frieda Fox and the Saint Bernard dog lie in ambush hidden in a camouflage net just inside the space station's entrance to surprise Rosa Luxemburg, but when Rosa returns from her trip outside, she notices the dog's wiggling tail.
伏
fú = fu + Ø2
to lean over / to fall (go down) / to hide (in ambush) / to conceal oneself / to lie low / hottest days of summer / to submit / to concede defeat / to overcome / to subdue / volt
伏 = 亻 + 犬 : A camouflage net.
伏 = 亻 + 犬 : Frieda Fox and the Saint Bernard dog lie in ambush hidden in a camouflage net just inside the space station's entrance to surprise Rosa Luxemburg, but when Rosa returns from her trip outside, she notices the dog's wiggling tail.
老
老
骥
驥
伏
伏
枥
櫪
lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles (idiom); fig. aged person with great aspirations
枥
櫪
lì = li + Ø4
type of oak / stable (for horses)
志
zhì = zh + Ø4
aspiration / ambition / the will
志
誌
zhì = zh + Ø4
sign / mark / to record / to write a footnote
志 = 士 + 心 : Mnemonic symbol: a sticky note. James II of England (zh) writes down his poems on sticky notes (志) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). As he reads them to the bachelor (士), the bachelor is really moved by James II of England's ambitions (志) and wants to give James II of England his heart (心).
在
zài = z + ai4
to exist; to be alive / (of sb or sth) to be (located) at / (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
在 = 一 + 亻 + 土 : Zorro (z) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) exist (在) in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). Rosa is in the middle of balancing a flute (一) on her head and on a pile of clay (土). Zorro uses his rapier to inscribe "Z" into the flute, so as to mark that the pronunciation of "在" begins with "z".
千
qia̅n = qi + an1
thousand
千 = 丿 + 十 : The Queen of Hearts dropped a kilo on her banana in front of the anthill, and now she uses a cross to try and revive it.
千
韆
qia̅n = qi + an1
see 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]
千
里
a thousand miles / a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers) / a long distance
里
裏
lǐ = li + Ø3
variant of 裡|里[li3]
里
裡
lǐ = li + Ø3
lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]
里 = 土 + 田 : Mnemonic symbol: a sunflower. The 田 part looks like the blossom and 土 looks like the stem and leaves. Li Qingzhao (li) wants to put up a field (田) inside (里) the space station's living room (Ø3). First she puts some earth (土) here and there, and then she plants lots of sunflowers (里).
里
lǐ = li + Ø3
Li (surname)
里
lǐ = li + Ø3
li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels

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