surname Xuan

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a big billboard.

There's a big billboard on top of the anthill announcing its new contrail school. Xu Xian just graduated and wearing his graduation cap, he swoops into the air, leaving a contrail outlining a graduation cap. He is so happy he even writes something on the billboard to let everyone know: "I made it!!!"
to declare (publicly) / to announce

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a big billboard.

There's a big billboard on top of the anthill announcing its new contrail school. Xu Xian just graduated and wearing his graduation cap, he swoops into the air, leaving a contrail outlining a graduation cap. He is so happy he even writes something on the billboard to let everyone know: "I made it!!!"

宣 character breakdown

extending all the way across / running all the way through

= + : Mnemonic symbol: in this character the sun goes from horizon to horizon, and thus I choose to represent it by a contrail.

Guy Fawkes wants to find out where contrails really come from, so he follows one until he arrives at the encampment's bathroom. There he finds that the sun was experimenting with a capacitor. She blew the capacitor up accidentally, resulting in lots of smoke, which then formed this contrail.
"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character look like a graduation cap (宀). Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to go to the anthill after her graduation from university. In the anthill's kitchen (an2), her friends snatch away her graduation cap (宀), and instead put a cooking top (冖) and a petal leaf (丶) on her head.

Characters with 宣 as component

clamor / noise
variant of 喧[xuan1] / old variant of 諼|谖[xuan1]
orange day-lily (Hemerocallis flava)
old variant of 萱[xuan1]
old variant of 萱[xuan1]
old variant of 萱[xuan1]
old variant of 萱[xuan1]
ornamental piece of jade
wash (color)
variant of 暄[xuan1]
genial and warm

= + : Xu Xian (xu) likes to hang out on a big billboard (宣) in front of the anthill (an1) because it gets so nice and warm (暄) when the sun (日) shines on it.
well-being
spade / hoe

Words with 宣

open hostilities without declaring war / start an undeclared war
Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Central Propaganda Department (abbr. for 中國共產黨中央委員會宣傳部|中国共产党中央委员会宣传部[Zhong1 guo2 Gong4 chan3 dang3 Zhong1 yang1 Wei3 yuan2 hui4 Xuan1 chuan2 bu4])
Publicity Department of the CCP (abbr. for 中國共產黨中央委員會宣傳部|中国共产党中央委员会宣传部[Zhong1 guo2 Gong4 chan3 dang3 Zhong1 yang1 Wei3 yuan2 hui4 Xuan1 chuan2 bu4])
Manifesto of the Communist Party / "Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei" by Marx and Engels (1848)
King Xuan, eleventh King of Zhou, reigned (828-782 BC)
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (810-859), reign name of seventeenth Tang emperor Li Chen 李忱[Li3 Chen2], reigned 846-859

Sentences with 宣

qǐ
zòu
wàn
suì
 
 
su̅n
wù
ko̅ng
xiàn
yǐ
xua̅n
dào