名落孙山

名
名
落
落
孙
孫
山
山
lit. to fall behind Sun Shan 孫山|孙山[Sun1 Shan1] (who came last in the imperial examination) (idiom) / fig. to fail an exam / to fall behind (in a competition)

Characters and words in 名落孙山

名
míng = mi + (e)ng2
name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people
名 = 口 + 夕 : Mnemonic symbol: a name badge (from 名牌).

Marilyn Monroe (mi) prepared a mandarin (口) for her bat (夕) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) and put her little darling's name badge (名) in front of it.
落
là = l + a4
to leave out / to be missing / to leave behind or forget to bring / to lag or fall behind
落
lào = l + ao4
colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds
落
luò = lu + o4
to fall or drop / (of the sun) to set / (of a tide) to go out / to lower / to decline or sink / to lag or fall behind / to fall onto / to rest with / to get or receive / to write down / whereabouts / settlement
落 = 艹 + 洛 : Lenny Lemur tried to grow some artificial lawn in the observatory's bathroom, but to no avail. He even put up a star for the light and provided bottled water, but the artificial lawn didn't grow. To make matters worse, the star is about to fall into the bathroom's well.
孙
孫
su̅n = su + (e)n1
surname Sun
孙 = 孑 + 小 : Susan Saint Bernard (su) was lucky enough to catch and eat a mosquito (孑) in front of the encampment ((e)n1), but two weeks later, the mosquito's grandson (孙) comes to fight Susan Saint Bernard and avenge the death of his grandfather. Susan Saint Bernard is a little embarrassed and offers a daisy (小) as peace offering.
孙
孫
su̅n = su + (e)n1
grandson / descendant
孙 = 孑 + 小 : Susan Saint Bernard (su) was lucky enough to catch and eat a mosquito (孑) in front of the encampment ((e)n1), but two weeks later, the mosquito's grandson (孙) comes to fight Susan Saint Bernard and avenge the death of his grandfather. Susan Saint Bernard is a little embarrassed and offers a daisy (小) as peace offering.
孙
孫
山
山
Sun Shan, Song Dynasty joker and talented scholar
山
sha̅n = sh + an1
surname Shan
山
sha̅n = sh + an1
mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable
山 = 丨 + 凵 : Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.

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