Mnemonic comic for

Translation

chì = ch + Ø4: step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60) / see also 彳亍[chi4 chu4]

Mnemonic

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.

彳 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).
"person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 9)

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: Rosa Luxemburg. She's quite radical, and her name starts with "r", just like "ren2". Also, 亻appears at the left-hand side of characters, and Rosa is a leftist as well.

Robinson Crusoe (r) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) are having their favorite snacks in the encampment's kitchen: Rosa is eating a banana (丿) and Robinson is eating a dinosaur bone (丨).

Characters with 彳 as component

to obtain / to get / to gain / to catch (a disease) / proper / suitable / proud / contented / to allow / to permit / ready / finished

= + : Don Quixote found a magic lamp and rubs it inside the elevator's kitchen. A genie appears and grants Don Quixote his wish for black sneakers. Unfortunately they are second hand and so smelly that Don Quixote instantly catches a disease.
surname Wei / ancient Chinese state near present day Chongqing / Taiwan pr. [Wei2]

= + + + + : Mnemonic symbol: a microscope.

Willy Walrus set up his microscope on a small table in front of the Eiffel Tower. He is investigating a very interesting crystal: the crystal looks like a big flute, and when he chips off pieces with a sledgehammer they also look like little flutes. He stores the chips in a black sneaker and to put them under the microscope he uses a fork.
tiny / miniature / slightly / profound / abtruse / to decline / one millionth part of / micro- / Taiwan pr. [wei2]

= + + + + : Mnemonic symbol: a microscope.

Willy Walrus set up his microscope on a small table in front of the Eiffel Tower. He is investigating a very interesting crystal: the crystal looks like a big flute, and when he chips off pieces with a sledgehammer they also look like little flutes. He stores the chips in a black sneaker and to put them under the microscope he uses a fork.
that / those / (one) another

= + : Brunhilde (bi) is doing experiments with living cultures in Petri dishes (彼) in the space station (Ø3). In one of her early cultures leather (皮) is growing, and in her most recent project she managed to have black sneakers (彳) grow in a Petri dish.
surname Xu

= + : After a hard day at work Xu Xian (xu) likes to be carried around in his sedan chair (余) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). He has his personnel wear black sneakers (彳) and has them walk really slowly (徐) so that there are no bumps whatsoever.
slowly / gently

= + : After a hard day at work Xu Xian (xu) likes to be carried around in his sedan chair (余) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). He has his personnel wear black sneakers (彳) and has them walk really slowly (徐) so that there are no bumps whatsoever.
(adverb of degree) / quite / very / awfully

= + : Hamlet feels awfully cool in the encampment, wearing black sneakers and blowing chewing gum bubbles. He is so very 90s.
to spread out / to develop / to overflow / to amplify / superfluous

= + : Maud Younger (y) is dancing on the bar in the anthill (an3), but suddenly her seven-league boots (行) cause her to run around like crazy, breaking all the water bottles (氵) and thereby having the whole inn overflow (衍) with water.
forced labor / corvée / obligatory task / military service / to use as servant / to enserf / servant (old) / war / campaign / battle

= + : Maud Younger (y) has been forced to manucfacture black sneakers (彳) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). When she started the forced labor (役) all she got as a tool was a halberd (殳).
variant of 銜|衔[xian2]
variant of 銜|衔[xian2]

Words with 彳

(literary) to walk slowly

Sentences with 彳

彳 currently does not appear in any sentence.