Mnemonic comic for 三
Mnemonic
Mnemonic symbol: a Cartesian coordinate system with three (三) axes.
Socrates (s-) is performing in front of the anthill (-an1). He created an electrical flute by attaching a large capacitor (二) to the flute (一), so that he can get the attention of all the ants. Moreover, he's balancing on a Cartesian coordinate system (三). Unfortunately, only three (三) ants stop to watch the performance.
三 character breakdown
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid
Characters with 三 as component
to not be; not / wrong; incorrect / non-; un-; in-; de- / to reproach; to blame / (coll.) to insist on; simply must
非
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三
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丿
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丨
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Frankenstein's monster made an effort to photograph the Eiffel Tower, but now his negative is a big mess. In front of the tower her set up a camera on a Cartesian coordinate system as a tripod, and he attached a banana and a dinosaur bone to the camera so that he can finely tune the angles. All was for naught as he now holds the messed up negative in his hands.
luxuriant / buxom / variant of 豐|丰[feng1] / variant of 風|风[feng1] / appearance / charm
orchid (蘭花|兰花 Cymbidium goeringii) / fragrant thoroughwort (蘭草|兰草 Eupatorium fortunei) / lily magnolia (木蘭|木兰)
surname Duan
段
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厂
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三
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殳
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Mnemonic symbol: a seven segment display, 七段数字.
Doggy Dog protects the chocolate factory in the anthill's bathroom with his halberd. The chocolate factory is well protected by a frame made of four coordinate systems. There is a large seven segment display which shows how many chocolate bars have been produced so far.
Doggy Dog protects the chocolate factory in the anthill's bathroom with his halberd. The chocolate factory is well protected by a frame made of four coordinate systems. There is a large seven segment display which shows how many chocolate bars have been produced so far.
paragraph / section / segment / stage (of a process) / classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc
段
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厂
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Mnemonic symbol: a seven segment display, 七段数字.
Doggy Dog protects the chocolate factory in the anthill's bathroom with his halberd. The chocolate factory is well protected by a frame made of four coordinate systems. There is a large seven segment display which shows how many chocolate bars have been produced so far.
Doggy Dog protects the chocolate factory in the anthill's bathroom with his halberd. The chocolate factory is well protected by a frame made of four coordinate systems. There is a large seven segment display which shows how many chocolate bars have been produced so far.
"long" or "to grow" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 168)
镸
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丨
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三
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一
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厶
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Charlie Chaplin (ch) got caught in one of the anglepod's traps in the kitchen (ang2); he activated the trap by stepping over a fake nose (厶). The trap consists of a huge coordinate system (三) serving as base structure; on top there is a flute (一) to which two dinosaur bones (丨) are attached. The dinosaur bones go straight into both of Charlie Chaplins nostrils; he will be dangling on the two bones in the air until his nose grows (镸) long (镸) enough for him to touch the ground again.
Words with 三
three sevens are twenty-one (idiom) / the facts of the matter / the actual situation
lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom) / fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on / complete ignorance
one day apart seems like three years (idiom)
lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. scrupulous attention to detail
thirty percent failure, seventy percent success, the official PRC verdict on Mao Zedong