Mnemonic comic for

Translation

wǔ = w + Ø3: five / 5

Mnemonic

Mnemonic symbol: a pentagram. In the space station (Ø3), Willy Walrus (w) chops up a steel beam (工) with a sickle (乛) into five (五) equal parts. He uses the five parts to assemble a steel pentagram (五).

五 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Gitta Giraffe (gu-) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's living room ((e)n3).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.
variant of 乙[zhe2]

Mnemonic symbol: a sickle.

James II of England (zh) cuts his own hair with his new sickle (乛) in the elevator's kitchen (e2).
work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a steel beam, since 工 looks like the cross section of a steel beam.

Gitta Giraffe (gu) is working a shift in front of the engine ((e)ng1). Her job is to melt dinosaur bones (丨) so that they can be disposed off easily. To melt the bones, she is shorting a huge capacitor (二) with a steel beam (工) which consequently heats up to a bright glow. Using the glowing hot steel beam she can melt the dinosaur bone easily.
king or monarch / best or strongest of its type / grand / great

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Martin Luther King. Willy Walrus (wu) is stuck in a heap of dirt (土) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). Martin Luther King (王) helps him by holding out a flute (一).
to rule / to reign over

Characters with 五 as component

surname Wu

= + : Willy Walrus is painting a pentagram on the walls of the space station. Suddenly, a squad of five soldiers appears to call him out, but Rosa Luxemburg helps him sneak away while she distracts the squad of five soldiers.
squad of five soldiers / to associate with / five (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

= + : Willy Walrus is painting a pentagram on the walls of the space station. Suddenly, a squad of five soldiers appears to call him out, but Rosa Luxemburg helps him sneak away while she distracts the squad of five soldiers.
surname Wu
I / my (old)

= + : In other characters: a mandarin colored pentagram.
(old) I; my

Words with 五

idiot / stupid person / a dope
lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
5-1 (May 1st)
several / three or five
in groups of three or four (idiom)
over and over again (idiom)
Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話|评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆
three sovereigns 三皇[san1 huang2] and five emperors 五帝[wu3 di4] of myth and legend / the earliest system of Chinese historiography
three principles and five virtues (idiom) / the three rules (ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife) and five constant virtues of Confucianism (benevolence 仁, righteousness 義|义, propriety 禮|礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信)
Tales from 5000 Years of Chinese History in three volumes by Cao Yuzhang 曹餘章|曹余章[Cao2 Yu2 zhang1]
lit. one half equals zero point five (division rule in abacus reckoning) / to share fairly between two parties / to go fifty-fifty
twenty four dynastic histories (or 25 or 26 in modern editions)
memorial activity 35 days after a person's death
generation of 1957 / refers to Mao's anti-rightist purge of 1957
May 7 cadre school (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. for 五七幹部學校|五七干部学校[Wu3 Qi1 Gan4 bu4 Xue2 xiao4])
1 divided by 16 is 0.0625 (abacus rule) / (fig.) to deny responsibility; to pass the buck
see 一推六二五[yi1 tui1 liu4 er4 wu3]
three, set five remove two (abacus rule) / efficiently / quickly and easily
(Tw) from time to time / frequently
to order again and again (idiom)

Sentences with 五

ta̅
shì
wǔ
bǎi
nián
qián
dé
dào
de
hóu
ji̅ng