尹

surname Yin

to administer / to oversee / to run / magistrate (old)

尹 = 丿 + 彐 : Mnemonic symbol: a system administrator.

Maud Younger hired a system administrator to care for her servers in the encampment. His pay is a banana per day, which Maud puts into a fake pig snout which acts as a kind of banana holder.

尹 character breakdown

尹
- 丿
- 彐

丿

piě = pi + e3

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).

彐

jì = ji + Ø4

pig snout (Kangxi radical 58)

Mnemonic symbol: the character 彐 looks a bit like a pig snout seen from the side. If you need to type it, remember its pronunciation ji4 by imagining Joan of Arc wearing a fake pig snout in the space station's bathroom and making grunting and squealing sounds.

Characters with 尹 as component

君

ju̅n = ju + (e)n1

monarch / lord / gentleman / ruler

君 = 口 + 尹 : Mnemonic symbol: 马天君 (see example sentences).

In front of the encampment, 马天君, the system administrator and Zeus all share a mandarin.

伊

yi̅ = y + Ø1

(old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she") / second person singular pronoun ("you") / (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she") / (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning / that (preceding a noun)

伊 = 亻 + 尹 : Mnemonic symbol: 木乃伊, munaiyi, mummy.

In front of the space station, the mummy is being chased by the system administrator, who got his shirt dirty and wants to use the mummy's bandages as napkin; the system administrator in turn is chased by Maud Younger, who still wants her servers to be run by the sysadmin; Maud Younger is chased by Rosa Luxemburg because Rosa wants an autograph from her idol; and Rosa is chased by the mummy, who is angry that Rosa stirs the masses up to revolt against their former leader.

伊

yi̅ = y + Ø1

surname Yi / abbr. for 伊拉克[Yi1 la1 ke4], Iraq / abbr. for 伊朗[Yi1 lang3], Iran

笋

筍

sǔn = su + (e)n3

bamboo shoot

咿

吚

yi̅ = y + Ø1

variant of 咿[yi1]