Mnemonic comic for 助

Translation

zhù = zhu + Ø4: to help / to assist

Mnemonic

Mnemonic symbol: water wings helping you to learn how to swim. Julian Giant Squid wants to learn how to swim and put on a lot of floaties in the space station's bathroom. As he hits the power button to inflate the high tech floaties remotely he forgot that there are still a lot of floaties left, stored in the shelf—he is reminded instanlty as also all of them inflate.

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助 character breakdown

助
- 且
  - 一
  - 目
    - 二
      - 一
    - 囗
- 力
  - 丿
  - ㇆
    - 一
    - 亅

且

qiě = qi + e3

and / moreover / yet / for the time being / to be about to / both (... and...)

且 = 目 + 一 : Mnemonic symbol: to me the character 且 looks like a shelf.

The Queen of Hearts (qi) bought a new shelf (且) for all her flutes (一) and set it up in the elevator's living room (e3). Because she is a queen (qi) and needs an extravagant shelf, she installed several Eye of Providences (目) to give the flutes extravagant lighting.

力

lì = li + Ø4

power / force / strength / ability / strenuously

力 = ㇆ + 丿 : 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.

Characters with 助 as component

锄

鋤

chú = chu + Ø2

a hoe / to hoe or dig / to weed / to get rid of

锄 = 助 + 钅 : Chantal Chicken (chu) is hoeing (锄) her garden just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). It is easy to pop the water wings (助) that are growing between the plants with her hoe, but the golden harpoons (钅) are very difficult to get rid of.

勗

xù = xu + Ø4

exhort / stimulate

箸

筯

zhù = zhu + Ø4

variant of 箸[zhu4]

耡

chú = chu + Ø2

hoe