田

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.

田 character breakdown

田
- 十
  - 一
  - 丨
- 囗

十

shí = sh + Ø2

ten / 10

十 = 一 + 丨 : Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).

囗

wéi = w + ei2

enclosure

Mnemonic symbol: a plastic enclosure. Willy Walrus (w) is keeping frozen fish in an enclosure (囗) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2).

Characters with 田 as component

曾

ze̅ng = z + (e)ng1

great- (grandfather, grandchild etc)

界

jiè = ji + e4

(bound form) boundary; border / (bound form) realm

界 = 介 + 田 : Joan of Arc wants to leave this world and sets up a rocket launch field in the elevator's bathroom. The field looks like a normal crop field, except that there's a rocket in the middle and that the Joan of Arc marked the boundary with white and red tape.

单

單

shàn = sh + an4

surname Shan

单

單

da̅n = d + an1

bill / list / form / single / only / sole / odd number / CL:個|个[ge4]

单 = 丷 + 田 + 十 : In front of the anthill there are many, really a field of crosses because Don Quixote killed so many people on his crusades. Today is his judgement day: a mean crocodile reads the list of his victims to him, and Don Quixote is really 不好意思.

胃

wèi = w + ei4

stomach / CL:個|个[ge4]

胃 = 月 + 田 : Willy Walrus (w) set up a mooncake (月) field (田) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4). This led to him eating way too much cake, and now his stomach (胃) hurts. To relief the pain he uses a hot water bottle (mnemonic symbol for 胃).

亩

畆

mǔ = mu + Ø3

old variant of 畝|亩[mu3]

亩

畮

mǔ = mu + Ø3

old variant of 畝|亩[mu3]

亩 = 亠 + 田 : When Malte Monkey (mu) was tilling his field (田) in the space station he lost his beret (亠) and now it must be buried under the earth. He'll have to search the whole field. Too bad for him that he has a whole hectare (亩) to search.

亩

畂

mǔ = mu + Ø3

old variant of 畝|亩[mu3]

亩

畝

mǔ = mu + Ø3

classifier for fields / unit of area equal to one fifteenth of a hectare

思

si̅ = s + Ø1

to think / to consider

思 = 心 + 田 : Socrates is feeling blue in front of the space station. He's thinking of burying his heart under a field. When he finishes, he realizes that he has created some kind of small planet, with his heart at the center.

画

畫

huà = hu + a4

to draw / picture / painting / CL:幅[fu2],張|张[zhang1] / classifier for paintings etc / variant of 劃|划[hua4]

画 = 一 + 田 + 凵 : Helga Horse (hu) decided to make the ashram's bathroom (a4) more beautiful, so she paints (画) her favourite field (田) on the wall using a flute (一). She doesn't watch out for the receptacles (凵) though, and gets shocked as her flute gets stuck in one of them.

畔

pàn = p + an4

edge / side / boundary / bank (of a river etc) / shore

畔 = 半 + 田 : Pinocchio (p) and King Solomon (半) are negotiating the boundary of their fields (畔) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). King Solomon is very accommodating in that he continues to half (半) his field.

雷

léi = l + ei2

thunder / (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[di4 lei2] land mine / (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound / (Tw) (coll.) spoiler / (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)

雷

léi = l + ei2

surname Lei

雷 = 田 + 雨 : Sir Lancelot (l) has to clear a mine (雷) field (田) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2) in the rain (雨). It is raining so hard, when Lancelot hears the thunder (雷) he doesn't know if it's the weather or a mine he triggered.