片假名

katakana (Japanese script)

Characters and words in 片假名

disk / sheet

thin piece / flake / a slice / film / TV play / to slice / to carve thin / partial / incomplete / one-sided / classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water / classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc / used with numeral 一[yi1]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc / Kangxi radical 91

Mnemonic symbol: a DVD. Pocahontas secretly sells DVDs in the anthill's bathroom.

假

ge̅i = g + ei1

used in 假掰[gei1 bai1]

假

jiǎ = ji + a3

fake / false / artificial / to borrow / if / suppose

假

jià = ji + a4

vacation

假 = 亻 + 叚 : Rosa Luxemburg and Joan of Arc want to go on vacation together, but they already used up all of their vacation days. That's why for the upcoming eye examination in the ashram's bathroom, they put in some glass eyes so that they will get a sick leave.

假

叚

jiǎ = ji + a3

variant of 假[jia3] / to borrow

Mnemonic symbol: a fake eye, 假眼

假

jiǎ

名

míng

false name / pseudonym / alias / pen name / the Japanese kana scripts / hiragana 平假名[ping2 jia3 ming2] and katakana 片假名[pian4 jia3 ming2]

名

míng = mi + (e)ng2

name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people

名 = 口 + 夕 : Mnemonic symbol: a name badge (from 名牌).

Marilyn Monroe (mi) prepared a mandarin (口) for her bat (夕) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) and put her little darling's name badge (名) in front of it.

Words with 片假名

片假名 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 片假名

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