Mnemonic comic for

Translation

shé = sh + e2: tongue

Mnemonic

Sherlock Holmes (sh) used a kilogram (千) to crush mandarins (口) on the elevator's kitchen (e2) counter. He's licking up the juice with his tongue (舌).

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All translations for 舌

used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"
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舌 character breakdown

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mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
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Characters with 舌 as component

in confusion or disorder / in a confused state of mind / disorder / upheaval / riot / illicit sexual relations / to throw into disorder / to mix up / indiscriminate / random / arbitrary
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to resign / to dismiss / to decline / to take leave / ballad (archaic poetic genre) / variant of 詞|词[ci2]
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to scrape / to blow / to shave / to plunder / to extort
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to fit / suitable / proper / just (now) / comfortable / well / to go / to follow or pursue
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enemy / to be a match for / to rival / to resist / to withstand
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dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
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to enclose / to include / also pr. [gua1]
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Words with 舌

dispute or misunderstanding caused by gossip / to talk sb round
to gossip / to argue unnecessarily
argument / words / lips and tongue
mouthpiece / spokesperson
fight a battle of words / cross verbal swords
lively discussion with everybody talking at once
to be speechless / also pr. [ze2 she2]
to stick out one's tongue
lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much
(Tw) French kissing / to waggle one's tongue around / (from Taiwanese 抐舌, Tai-lo pr. [lā-tsi̍h])
retroflex vowel (e.g. the final r of putonghua)
to have a silver tongue / to have the gift of the gab
to gossip / to argue unnecessarily
to gossip / to argue unnecessarily
tongue depressor / spatula
to gossip and meddle / to shoot one's mouth off / talkative
to commit suicide by biting off one's tongue

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