Mnemonic comic for

Translation

lì = li + Ø4: power / force / strength / ability / strenuously

Mnemonic

Mnemonic symbol: a power button.

Li Qingzhao (li) just had a shower in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and wants to use the hair dryer, but there's no plug, just the bare end of the cable! She uses all her power to build an electricity plug, and for the two pins she uses a plough (㇆) and a banana (丿). Finally she hits a big power button (力) to turn the power on.

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Comments

Shoutout to https://permaclipart.org/clipart_creator/gdj/ for uploading a power button to https://permaclipart.org/clipart/on-button/

Matthias, about 1 year ago

力 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]
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Character component without intrinsic meaning
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Characters with 力 as component

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male / Baron, lowest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
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meritorious deed or service / achievement / result / service / accomplishment / work (physics)
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other / another / separate / separately
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to add / plus / (used after an adverb such as 不, 大, 稍 etc, and before a disyllabic verb, to indicate that the action of the verb is applied to sth or sb previously mentioned) / to apply (restrictions etc) to (sb) / to give (support, consideration etc) to (sth) / Canada (abbr. for 加拿大[Jia1 na2 da4]) / surname Jia
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poor / destitute / to use up / to exhaust / thoroughly / extremely / (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
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to do / to manage / to handle / to go about / to run / to set up / to deal with
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variant of 為|为[wei2] / as (i.e. in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do
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Words with 力

manpower / labor power
main force / main strength of an army
to spare no pains or effort (idiom); to do one's utmost
not to do one's best / not to exert oneself
lacking in strength / weak / feeble
unpredictable eventuality / unpreventable / unavoidable / impossible to overcome / nothing can be done about it / act of God / force majeure
main force (military) / (fig.) the group or element with the most impact / mainstay / main cohort
personal charm / charisma
lame (unimpressive) / a huge letdown / not to try at all
to overestimate one's capabilities
as easy as blowing off dust / effortless / with ease
acrylic (loanword) / see also 壓克力|压克力[ya1 ke4 li4]

Sentences with 力

dà
xia̅n
fǎ
lì
wú
qióng