害
to do harm to / to cause trouble to / harm / evil / calamity
害
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宀
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丰
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口
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Mnemonic symbol: Calamity Jane.
Hamlet has just graduated from high school and his still wearing his graduation cap, but Calamity Jane locked him in a golden cage in the airplane's bathroom because she envies him so much. She even gave him no food so far and teases him with a mandarin.
Hamlet has just graduated from high school and his still wearing his graduation cap, but Calamity Jane locked him in a golden cage in the airplane's bathroom because she envies him so much. She even gave him no food so far and teases him with a mandarin.
害 character breakdown
luxuriant / buxom / variant of 豐|丰[feng1] / variant of 風|风[feng1] / appearance / charm
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]
宀
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丶
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冖
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Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character look like a graduation cap (宀).
Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to cook in the anthill's kitchen (an2) but she's afraid of the ants. That's why she builds a bunker: she uses a saucepan lid (冖) as the base, constructs pillars out of petals (丶) and uses a graduation cap (宀) as the roof.
Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to cook in the anthill's kitchen (an2) but she's afraid of the ants. That's why she builds a bunker: she uses a saucepan lid (冖) as the base, constructs pillars out of petals (丶) and uses a graduation cap (宀) as the roof.
Characters with 害 as component
linchpin (used to fasten a wheel to an axle) / (bound form) to govern; to have jurisdiction over
open; clear; liberal-minded; generous / to exempt; to remit
豁
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害
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谷
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Under normal circumstances neither horses nor popcorn (谷) are allowed in the observatory, but Calamity Jane (害) was able to get an exemption (豁) and ride Helga Horse (hu) into the observatory's bathroom (o4) while eating popcorn by showing her "special permit" (her colt) at the entrance.
blind / groundlessly / foolishly / to no purpose
瞎
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害
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目
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Calamity Jane (害) surprises the Eye of Providence (目) for no specific reason (瞎) in front of the ashram (a1) by blinding (瞎) it from behind with her hands. The Eye of Providence takes a wild guess (瞎) and exclaims that it must be Marie Curie (xi) blinding him, which makes Calamity Jane very jealous.
variant of 轄|辖, to govern / to control / having jurisdiction over / linchpin of a wheel (archaic) / noise of a barrow
Words with 害
to offend Heaven and reason (idiom); bloody atrocities that cry to heaven / outrageous acts
don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech to the detriment of what you want to say