宰予晝寢

宰
宰
予
予
昼
晝
寝
寢
Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom); refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures

Characters and words in 宰予晝寢

宰
zǎi = z + ai3
to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc) / (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge / (bound form) to govern; to rule / (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China)
宰 = 宀 + 辛 : Zorro (z) is preparing a terrible kind of kimchi (辛) in the airplane (ai3). He is slaughtering livestock (宰) and collecting it together with the kimchi in a huge, turned-over graduation cap (宀).
宰
予
Zai Yu (522-458 BC), disciple of Confucius
予
yú = yu + Ø2
(archaic) I / me
予
yǔ = yu + Ø3
to give
予 = ㇖ + ㇏ + ㇖ + 亅 : Mnemonic symbol: Confucius's disciple 宰予 who used to sleep during Confucuis's lectures.

Yu the Great is giving a lecture in the space station, but her only listener Zai Yu fell asleep right at the start. First, Yu the Great tried to poke him with her finger. No reaction. Then she hit him with a crowbar. Again, no reaction. Finally, Yu the Great got so angry that she was close to hitting Zai Yu with two sickles.
予
yǔ = yu + Ø3
(literary) to give
昼
晝
zhòu = zh + ou4
daytime
昼 = 尺 + 旦 : During the daytime (昼) James II of England (zh) measures the time by measuring how much coffee is left in his coffee mug (旦) with a tape measure (尺). He has the habit of doing so in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4).
寝
寢
qǐn = qi + (e)n3
to lie down

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