帚

zhǒu = zh + ou3

broom

帚

箒

zhǒu = zh + ou3

variant of 帚[zhou3]

帚 character breakdown

帚
- 冖
- 巾
  - 丨
  - 冂
    - 丨
    - ㇆
      - 一
      - 亅
- 彐
  - 二
    - 一

冖

mì = mi + Ø4

"cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14), occurring in 軍|军[jun1], 冠[guan1] etc, known as 禿寶蓋|秃宝盖[tu1 bao3 gai4] or 平寶蓋|平宝盖[ping2 bao3 gai4]

Mnemonic symbol: 冖 shall be represented by a cooking top. Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to use the bathroom in the space station (Ø4), but the door is broken! She tries to cover herself with a cooking top (冖) instead.

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.

彐

jì = ji + Ø4

pig snout (Kangxi radical 58)

彐 = ㇕ + 二 : Joan of Arc wears a fake pig snout in the space station's bathroom and makes grunting and squealing sounds.

Characters with 帚 as component

妇

婦

fù = fu + Ø4

woman

妇 = 女 + 彐 : Frieda Fox (fu) and Bessie Coleman (女), both being women (妇), do women's stuff in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), such as throwing fake pig noses (彐) at each other.

归

歸

gui̅ = gu + ei1

to return / to go back to / to give back to / (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by / to belong to / to gather together / (used between two identical verbs) despite / to marry (of a woman) (old) / division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor

归 = 刂 + 彐 : Gitta Giraffe (gu) was given the responsibility (归) to guard the Eiffel Tower. In front of it (ei1) she stands guard holding a tiny kitchen knife (刂) in her hand in case of attacks, and a pig's snout (彐) on her head as kind of a helmet.

归

歸

gui̅ = gu + ei1

surname Gui

扫

掃

sǎo = s + ao3

to sweep

扫 = 彐 + 扌 : Socrates (s) is sweeping the aorta (ao3) using a broom (扫). There are big pig snouts (彐) lying around on the floor which he picks up using a toy claw (扌) because they are too big to sweep (扫).

扫

掃

sào = s + ao4

broom

帚

箒

zhǒu = zh + ou3

variant of 帚[zhou3]

帰

gui̅ = gu + ei1

Japanese variant of 歸|归

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