míng
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(e)ng2:
name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people
Mnemonic
Mnemonic symbol: a name badge (from 名牌).
Marilyn Monroe (mi) prepared a mandarin (口) for her bat (夕) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) and put her little darling's name badge (名) in front of it.
Mnemonic symbol: this character looks a bit like a bat, and bats come out of their caves at dusk. I could see the upper left 丿 as part of the bat's right wing, ㇇ as the body/head and 丶 as the eye of the bat.
Xi Shi (xi) goes out for a space walk in front of the space station (Ø1) in the evening (夕), where she observes a space bat.
铭
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名
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钅
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Before she visits engine, in the kitchen ((e)ng2) Marilyn Monroe (mi) engraves (铭) her epitaph (铭) on her name badge (名) using a golden harpoon (钅) just in case anything happens.