Mnemonic comic for

Translation

yue̅ = yu + e1: to speak / to say

Mnemonic

Mnemonic symbol: a microphone. Yu the Great (yu) is selling flutes (一) in front of the elevator (e1). He has a whole box (囗) of them, and he's advertising them by using a microphone (曰).
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曰 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.

Mnemonic symbol: a plastic enclosure. Willy Walrus (w) is keeping frozen fish in an enclosure (囗) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2).

Characters with 曰 as component

to follow / from / because of; due to / by; via; through / (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...
to follow / from / because of / due to / by / via / through / (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 自由古巴, a cuba libre. The character 由 itself even looks like a cuba libre.

Maud Younger (y) is taking part in a charity auction in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). She is auctioning the dinosaur bone (丨) next to her and is speaking into a microphone (曰). In the other hand she is holding a cuba libre (由), and she is already quite drunk.
old name for Shanghai 上海[Shang4 hai3] / surname Shen
to extend / to state / to explain / 9th earthly branch: 3-5 p.m., 7th solar month (7th August-7th September), year of the Monkey / ancient Chinese compass point: 240°

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a textbook.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) uses a microphone (曰) and a dinosaur bone (丨) as pointer to explain (申) the history of the encampment to the audience standing in front of it ((e)n1). He likes to present himself as an expert, but he's a faker: All his explanations come from his textbook (申).
first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75°

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 甲 just looks like a protest placard.

It's the first (甲) time Joan of Arc (ji) is protesting against something using a protest placard (甲). Inside of the ashram (a3), she is protesting against the many dinosaur bones (丨) lying around. She does not only have a protest placard, she also uses a microphone (曰) to deliver raging speeches.
to substitute for / to take the place of / to replace / for / on behalf of / to stand in for

= + + : Mother Teresa (ti) wants to replace (替) the sun (日) to become the center of the universe. In the space station's bathroom (Ø4) she instructs two construction workers (夫夫) to throw her right towards the sun, so that Mother Teresa can box her out of orbit.
lightning / electricity / electric (bound form) / to get (or give) an electric shock / phone call or telegram etc / to send via telephone or telegram etc

= + : Dorothy Gale (di) is looking for a wall plug for her charger (mnemonic symbol for 电) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). She's digging up the whole place with a shovel (乚), but instead of a wall plug she finds a microphone (曰).

= + : So many questions! That's why I'm gonna represent this with a quiz wheel. Each section of the wheel corresponds to one of the question words.

The beggar from ancient Egypt (匃) is the candidate in a quiz game just inside the elevator's kitchen (e2). His quiz master is Hamlet (h), and the quiz wheel (曷) is spun by the sun (日).

= + : Zapatista Zebra finds a bloody ear in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom. The sun has been shining on it, and Zapatista Zebra thinks it's the most disgusting smell ever.

= + + : Mnemonic symol: 曼德拉, Nelson Mandela, who is very handsome (and very large).

Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi are fighting a gladiator fight in the anthill's bathroom. First they both shout into a microphone why each of them will win for the audience, then they start to fight: Mahatma Gandhi with boxing gloves, Nelson Mandela with a fishing net.

Words with 曰

to call by the glorified name of (idiom)
to be named / named
Confucius says:

Sentences with 曰

曰 currently does not appear in any sentence.