Mnemonic comic for 从
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Mnemonic symbol: 从 looks like the legs of a rubber chicken. Two Neanderthal Men (人) are playing a game with Kitty Cat (cu) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2). They stand in a line and let Kitty Cat pass through (从) the tunnel formed by their legs by teasing her with a rubber chicken (从).
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从 character breakdown
person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
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Characters with 从 as component
from / through / via / to follow / to obey / to engage in (an activity) / never (in negative sentence) / (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer / assistant / auxiliary / subordinate / related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor
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to sit / to take a seat / to take (a bus, airplane etc) / to bear fruit / variant of 座[zuo4]
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crowd; multitude / many; numerous
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variant of 眾|众[zhong4]
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witch / wizard / shaman / also pr. [wu2]
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surname Wu / also pr. [Wu2]
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cluster / collection / collection of books / thicket
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soldier / servant / to finish / to die / finally / at last / pawn in Chinese chess
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variant of 猝[cu4]
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to come / to arrive / to come round / ever since / next
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Taiwan pr. used in 夾生|夹生[jia1 sheng1] and 夾竹桃|夹竹桃[jia1 zhu2 tao2]
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two / both / some / a few / tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤[jin1] (old)
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warp (the vertical threads in weaving) / vertical / longitudinal / north-south (lines of longitude) / lengthwise / to release / to indulge / even if
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to excite / to raise up / to shrug / high / lofty / towering
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Words with 从
less capable than desirable (idiom); not as strong as one would wish / the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
(Internet slang) huge crowds of people (emphatic form of 人[ren2])
It's a long and intricate story, I hardly know where to start.
center-embedded relative clauses
(idiom) to refer to sth by the name its owners use / to refer to a place by the name its inhabitants use (e.g. refer to Seoul as 首爾|首尔[Shou3 er3] rather than 漢城|汉城[Han4 cheng2])
joy from heaven (idiom); overjoyed at unexpected good news / unlooked-for happy event
lit. the sun rises in the west (idiom) / fig. hell freezes over / pigs can fly
Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德[de2], physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功
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