Mnemonic comic for 也
Translation
Mnemonic
Maud Younger (y) wants to split a dinosaur bone (丨) in half in the elevator's living room (e3) using the shovel of an excavator (也). She has to squint (乜) her eyes to precisely hit the center point of the dinosaur bone.
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也 character breakdown
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)
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vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]
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component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 毫[hao2] / archaic variant of 乙[yi3]
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surname Nie
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used in 乜斜[mie1 xie5] / (Cantonese) what?
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Character component without intrinsic meaning
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Characters with 也 as component
earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:片[pian4]
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-ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
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he; him (used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant) / (used before sb's name for emphasis) / (used as a meaningless mock object) / (literary) other
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to unstring a bow / to slacken / to relax / to loosen
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to run fast / to speed / to gallop / to disseminate / to spread
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pond / reservoir / moat
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a tribe of indigenous people in south China
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variant of 它[ta1]
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(third person pronoun for a divine being)
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Words with 也
(reduplicated) whether... or... / never mind / fine (indicating acceptance or resignation)
words of a man on his deathbed always come from the heart (proverb)
not to reciprocate is against etiquette (classical) / to respond in kind
Life is short, learning is limitless / Ars longa, vita brevis
lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信|韩信[Han2 Xin4] being made Grand General 大將軍|大将军[da4 jiang1 jun1] / fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor
mouth full of literary phrases / to spout the classics
best not to mention it / drop it / never mind / let's not talk about it
lit. 之[zhi1], 乎[hu1], 者[zhe3] and 也[ye3] (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions