着
to touch / to come in contact with / to feel / to be affected by / to catch fire / to burn / (coll.) to fall asleep / (after a verb) hitting the mark / succeeding in
着
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目
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羊
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In the aorta's kitchen (ao2), James II of England (zh) has first contact (着) with the sheep's (羊) wool. He is so amazed by the feeling that he can't stop cuddling with the sheep and finally falls asleep (着). Unfortunately the Eye of Providence (目) watches all of it and is so jealous that it catches fire (着).
着 character breakdown
eye / (literary) to look; to regard / eye (of a net); mesh / mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4]) / item; section / list; catalogue / (taxonomy) order / name; title
Characters with 着 as component
着
is not used as a component in another character.
Words with 着
not to the point / wide of the mark / neither here nor there / irrelevant
see 偷雞不成蝕把米|偷鸡不成蚀把米[tou1 ji1 bu4 cheng2 shi2 ba3 mi3]
lit. no village ahead and no inn behind (idiom) / fig. to be stranded in the middle of nowhere / to be in a predicament
lit. to occupy a latrine but not shit (proverb) / fig. to be a dog in the manger
lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom) / fig. you'll have to take the consequences
One careless move and the whole game is lost. (idiom)
lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom) / fig. at a total loss