微
surname Wei / ancient Chinese state near present day Chongqing / Taiwan pr. [Wei2]
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Mnemonic symbol: a microscope.
Willy Walrus set up his microscope on a small table in front of the Eiffel Tower. He is investigating a very interesting crystal: the crystal looks like a big flute, and when he chips off pieces with a sledgehammer they also look like little flutes. He stores the chips in a black sneaker and to put them under the microscope he uses a fork.
Willy Walrus set up his microscope on a small table in front of the Eiffel Tower. He is investigating a very interesting crystal: the crystal looks like a big flute, and when he chips off pieces with a sledgehammer they also look like little flutes. He stores the chips in a black sneaker and to put them under the microscope he uses a fork.
tiny / miniature / slightly / profound / abtruse / to decline / one millionth part of / micro- / Taiwan pr. [wei2]
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Mnemonic symbol: a microscope.
Willy Walrus set up his microscope on a small table in front of the Eiffel Tower. He is investigating a very interesting crystal: the crystal looks like a big flute, and when he chips off pieces with a sledgehammer they also look like little flutes. He stores the chips in a black sneaker and to put them under the microscope he uses a fork.
Willy Walrus set up his microscope on a small table in front of the Eiffel Tower. He is investigating a very interesting crystal: the crystal looks like a big flute, and when he chips off pieces with a sledgehammer they also look like little flutes. He stores the chips in a black sneaker and to put them under the microscope he uses a fork.
微 character breakdown
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
small table
Joan of Arc (ji) is sitting at a small table (几) in front of the space station (Ø1) and reading her Bible, waiting for a message from God.
mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable
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Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.
how much / how many / several / a few
step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60) / see also 彳亍[chi4 chu4]
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Mnemonic symbol for the step with the left foot: a black sneaker, because black sneakers are popular at least with the leftists I met.
Rosa Luxemburg (亻) just finished her banana (丿) and throws the peel over her shoulder in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). Charlie Chaplin (彳), wearing a black sneaker on his left foot, manages to step on the banana peel with his left foot and fall over even in zero gravity.
Rosa Luxemburg (亻) just finished her banana (丿) and throws the peel over her shoulder in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). Charlie Chaplin (彳), wearing a black sneaker on his left foot, manages to step on the banana peel with his left foot and fall over even in zero gravity.
variant of 攴[pu1]
Characters with 微 as component
to invite / to recruit / to levy (taxes) / to draft (troops) / phenomenon / symptom / characteristic sign (used as proof) / evidence
badge / emblem / insignia / crest / logo / coat of arms
old variant of 徽[hui1]
variant of 霉[mei2]
4th note in pentatonic scale 五音[wu3 yin1], roughly sol / see also 徵|征[zheng1]
Osmunda regalis, a species of fern / Taiwan pr. [wei2]
Japanese variant of 徵|征
old variant of 溦[wei1]