variant of 銜|衔[xian2]
variant of 銜|衔[xian2]
bit (of a bridle) / to hold in the mouth / to harbor (feelings) / to link / to accept / rank / title

= + : When Marie Curie (xi) goes to war she always puts on her seven-league boots (行) in the anthill's kitchen (an2), puts her golden harpoon (钅) into her mouth like the bit of a bridle (衔) and gets going. For being so fast at the battle field she has been awarded a very high rank (衔) and a special title (衔).

衔 character breakdown

step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60) / see also 彳亍[chi4 chu4]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol for the step with the left foot: a black sneaker, because black sneakers are popular at least with the leftists I met.

Rosa Luxemburg (亻) just finished her banana (丿) and throws the peel over her shoulder in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). Charlie Chaplin (彳), wearing a black sneaker on his left foot, manages to step on the banana peel with his left foot and fall over even in zero gravity.
row / line / commercial firm / line of business / profession / to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age) / (in data tables) row / (Tw) column
to walk / to go / to travel / a visit / temporary / makeshift / current / in circulation / to do / to perform / capable / competent / effective / all right / OK! / will do / behavior / conduct / Taiwan pr. [xing4] for the behavior-conduct sense

= + : Mnemonic symbol from "to travel": seven-league boots.

Xi Shi (xi) is tired of walking with a black sneaker on her left foot (彳) and a full armor boot on her right foot (亍). Fortunately she finds seven-league boots (行) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2).
Character component without intrinsic meaning

Mnemonic symbol: a golden harpoon.

Characters with 衔 as component

衔 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 衔

title / rank / appellation
army rank / military rank
to join together / to combine
leading (role) / heading list of signatories / leading actors (in a show) / starring
title / official rank
title (position within an organization)
rank of professor / academic title
bit / mouthpiece
academic title / rank
the swallow's nest is built one beakful of mud at a time (idiom) / many a little makes a mickle
to repay sb's kind acts (idiom)
with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom) / (of a marching army) in utter silence
leading actors (in a show) / starring

Sentences with 衔

衔 currently does not appear in any sentence.