當

to be / to act as / manage / withstand / when / during / ought / should / match equally / equal / same / obstruct / just at (a time or place) / on the spot / right / just at

当 = 小 + 彐 : This character looks like an angry pitbull. 小 forms the eyes and maybe nose, and 彐 are the dangerous teeth.

当 = 小 + 彐 : Don Quixote opposes a dangerous pit bull in front of the anglepod, and he tries to calm him down with a daisy.

当

當

dàng = d + ang4

at or in the very same... / suitable / adequate / fitting / proper / to replace / to regard as / to think / to pawn / (coll.) to fail (a student)

當 character breakdown

當
- 尚
  - 冋
    - 冂
      - 丨
      - ㇆
        
        一
        
        亅
    - 口
    - 囗
  - 小
    - 亅
    - 八
      - 丿
      - ㇏
  - ⺌
    - 小
      - 亅
      - 八
        
        丿
        
        ㇏
- 田
  - 十
    - 一
    - 丨
  - 囗

尚

shàng = sh + ang4

surname Shang

尚

shàng = sh + ang4

still / yet / to value / to esteem

尚 = ⺌ + 冋 : Mnemonic symbol: 和尚, a buddhist monk.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) assumed his new post inside of the anglepod's bathroom (ang4) at the border control checkpoint (冋). His first client is a buddhist monk (尚) who wants to import some aloe vera (⺌). Sherlock asks him what he thinks how large the value (尚) of his goods is, but the buddhist monk has no idea.

田

tián = ti + an2

field / farm / CL:片[pian4]

田 = 囗 + 十 : Mother Teresa (ti) wants to plant a field (田) of crosses (十) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). She ordered an enclosure (囗) full of crosses (十) and puts them up one by one.

Characters with 當 as component

当

噹

da̅ng = d + ang1

(onom.) dong / ding dong (bell)

当 = 小 + 彐 : This character looks like an angry pitbull. 小 forms the eyes and maybe nose, and 彐 are the dangerous teeth.

当 = 小 + 彐 : Don Quixote opposes a dangerous pit bull in front of the anglepod, and he tries to calm him down with a daisy.

档

檔

dàng = d + ang4

official records / grade (of goods) / file / records / shelves / slot / gap / crosspiece / classifier for crosspieces / classifier for events, affairs etc / Taiwan pr. [dang3]

档 = 当 + 木 : Don Quixote (d) found that he got the new folders he wanted for Christmas, but he also finds the shreds that the angry pitbull (当) made out of them under the Christmas tree (木) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4). Don Quixote leaps towards the Christmas tree anyway to save (档) what can be saved.

档

檔

dǎng = d + ang3

(Tw) variant of 擋|挡[dang3], gear

挡

擋

dǎng = d + ang3

to resist / to obstruct / to hinder / to keep off / to block (a blow) / to get in the way of / cover / gear (e.g. in a car's transmission)

挡 = 当 + 扌 : An angry pitbull (当) attacks Don Quixote (d) in the anglepod (ang3), but Don Quixote resists (挡) with a toy claw (扌). The pitbull bites into the toy claw fiercely, but the toy claw is able to resist (挡) his bite.

挡

擋

dàng = d + ang4

to arrange / to put in order

铛

鐺

da̅ng = d + ang1

clank / clang / sound of metal

铛

鐺

che̅ng = ch + (e)ng1

frying pan / griddle