Mnemonic comic for 奇
Mnemonic
Mnemonic symbol: cappuccino (卡布奇诺, ka3 bu4 qi2 nuo4). The Queen of Hearts (qi) discovered a really weird (奇) but wonderful (奇) feature of the robot (大) who's serving as a barista in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). If she feeds him a kebab (可) he'll vomit a cappuccino (奇) for free.
All translations for 奇
odd (number)
strange / odd / weird / wonderful / surprisingly / unusually
奇
=
可
+
大
:
Mnemonic symbol: cappuccino (卡布奇诺)
The Queen of Hearts (qi) craves a cappuccino (奇) just inside the entrance of the space station (Ø2), and the robot (大) has one in his robot hands. He will give it to the Queen of Hearts under one weird (奇) condition: she shall prove that she's worth to receive the cappuccino by sitting on a bed of nails (可). The Queen agrees and pretends to be in much vain, but really she's just pretending since there is no gravity in the space station.
The Queen of Hearts (qi) craves a cappuccino (奇) just inside the entrance of the space station (Ø2), and the robot (大) has one in his robot hands. He will give it to the Queen of Hearts under one weird (奇) condition: she shall prove that she's worth to receive the cappuccino by sitting on a bed of nails (可). The Queen agrees and pretends to be in much vain, but really she's just pretending since there is no gravity in the space station.
奇 character breakdown
can / may / able to / to approve / to permit / to suit / (particle used for emphasis) certainly / very
可
=
丁
+
口
:
Alternative mnemonic symbol: kebab, from the pronunciation "ke". Karl Marx (k) is preparing a kebab (mnemonic symbol for 可) in the elevator's living room (e3). He also skewers mandarins (口) on the long steel nails (丁) and will only allow (可) his guests to eat the rest of the kebab if they eat their mandarins first.
used in 可汗[ke4 han2]
see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
Characters with 奇 as component
lopsided / unbalanced / abnormal / irregular / odd fractional remnant
to lean on / to rely upon
to send / to mail / to entrust / to depend on / to attach oneself to / to live (in a house) / to lodge / foster (son etc)
to sit astride / to ride (a horse, bike etc) / classifier for saddle horses
(Tw) saddle horse / mounted soldier
mountainous
curio / valuable stone
headland
beautiful / open-work silk
(interj.)
Words with 奇
Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part II), second of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初[Ling2 Meng2 chu1]
Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part I), first of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初[Ling2 Meng2 chu1]
(loanword) kitsch, in a sense that originates in the writing of Milan Kundera: getting emotional about sth due to the influence of social conditioning
Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution
Jiagedaqi district of Daxing'anling prefecture 大興安嶺地區|大兴安岭地区, in northwest Heilongjiang and northeast Inner Mongolia
Jiagedaqi district of Daxing'anling prefecture 大興安嶺地區|大兴安岭地区, in northwest Heilongjiang and northeast Inner Mongolia
lit. to change something rotten into something magical (idiom)
Extraordinary people in our ordinary world, short stories by novelist Feng Jicai 馮驥才|冯骥才[Feng2 Ji4 cai2]