吊

to suspend / to hang up / to hang a person

吊 = 口 + 巾 : Dorothy Gale is travelling and tries to find a way to hang up her towel in the aorta's bathroom. Finally, she came up with something: She forges a coat hanger out of mandarin peel and hangs her towel on it.

吊 = 口 + 巾 : Mnemonic symbol: a coat hanger.

吊

弔

diào = di + ao4

a string of 100 cash (arch.) / to lament / to condole with / variant of 吊[diao4]

吊 character breakdown

吊
- 口
- 巾
  - 丨
  - 冂
    - 丨
    - ㇆
      - 一
      - 亅

口

kǒu = k + ou3

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

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 吊 as component

常

cháng = ch + ang2

always / ever / often / frequently / common / general / constant

常 = 小 + 冖 + 吊 : Mnemonic symbol: the centennial light, a light bulb which will shine forever and ever.

常 = 小 + 冖 + 吊 : Charlie Chaplin is fighting his way through anglepod's underbrush with a coat hanger. The anglepod has not been visited in a hundred years, and with his coat hanger, Charlie Chaplin has to cut down a lot of daisies. Finally he found what he was looking for: the centennial light, protected from the daisies and the rain by a cooking top.

常

cháng = ch + ang2

surname Chang

屌

diǎo = di + ao3

penis / (slang) cool or extraordinary / (Cantonese) to fuck

铞

銱

diào = di + ao4

see 釕銱兒|钌铞儿[liao4 diao4 r5]