surname Li

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the rocket Arianne, 亚利安娜.

Li Qingzhao (li) prepares to go back to earth in the Arianne rocket (利). In the space station's bathroom (Ø4) she prepares for the trip by stuffing lots of cereals (禾) into the rocket and sharpening (利) the tip of the rocket with a kitchen knife (刂).
sharp / favorable / advantage / benefit / profit / interest / to do good to / to benefit

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the rocket Arianne, 亚利安娜.

Li Qingzhao (li) prepares to go back to earth in the Arianne rocket (利). In the space station's bathroom (Ø4) she prepares for the trip by stuffing lots of cereals (禾) into the rocket and sharpening (利) the tip of the rocket with a kitchen knife (刂).

利 character breakdown

Kangxi radical 18 (刀[dao1]) as a vertical side element / see also 立刀旁[li4 dao1 pang2] / see also 側刀旁|侧刀旁[ce4 dao1 pang2]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a kitchen knife. Don Quixote (d) is showing off his special knifes in front of the aorta (ao1). One is made from a dinosaur bone (丨), and the other is made from a crowbar (亅).
cereal / grain

= 丿 + : A bowl of cereals. Hamlet made himself a bowl of cereals with bananas and a Christmas tree just inside the elevator's kitchen. He thinks the elevator's kitchen is a stage, and holds the bowl of cereals like he would hold Yorick's skull.

Characters with 利 as component

pear / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) crashed the Arianne rocket (利) into the space station's entrance (Ø2) and thereby caused the Christmas tree (木) to fall over. It was decorated with lots of pears (梨) which will now go bad very soon because of the dents, so Li Qingzhao has to eat them all before they go bad.
(phonetic character used in transliteration of foreign names) / Taiwan pr. [li4] / variant of 璃[li2]

= + : Martin Luther King (王) and Li Qingzhao (li) want to color some glass just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). They attach their glass plate to the space station's centrifuge (离) and spin-coat the glass surface so that it gets a very nice glaze (璃).
jasmine

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) is growing jasmine (莉) on sheets of artificial lawn (艹) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). When the jasmine is ready to be harvested she will ship it to earth in her Arianne rocket (利).
plow
clever

= + : Because Rosa Luxemburg (亻) and Li Qingzhao (li) are so clever (俐) they were able to rebuild the Arianne rocket (利) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
(cattle) tongue (Cantonese)
dysentery
clam
a kind of monkey
(final particle) / sound / noise
variant of 哩[li5]

Words with 利

squeaky clean / neat and tidy / efficient
mutually beneficial
(of speech or actions) direct and efficient / without fooling around
see 不知好歹[bu4 zhi1 hao3 dai3]
see 乾脆利落|干脆利落[gan1 cui4 li4 luo5]
Ariane (French space rocket)
small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out
Suntory, Japanese beverage company

Sentences with 利

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