Mnemonic comic for 手
Translation
Mnemonic
Sherlock Holmes (sh) wants to eat a banana (丿) in the outhouse’s living room (ou3) but he can’t touch it with his hands (手) because it’s energized through a capacitor (二). To remove the capacitor he levers it out of the banana using a crowbar (亅). To not get shocked through the crowbar he protects his hands (手) by wearing baseball gloves (mnemonic symbol for 手).
Comments
手 character breakdown
Component Translations
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]
two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid
"vertical stroke with hook" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 6) / see also 豎鉤|竖钩[shu4 gou1]