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

异

異

yì = y + Ø4

different / other / hetero- / unusual / strange / surprising / to distinguish / to separate / to discriminate

异 = 巳 + 廾 : Maud Younger sees a wyvern in the space station's bathroom and thinks it's soo strange that there's a wyvern in the space station. But after all, it's just the lab snake which ate a double axe.

異 = 共 + 田 : Maud Younger (y) has been sent off to help the communist (共) tending the field (田) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). She proves very helpful as her secret strange super power (mnemonic symbol for 異), xray vision, helps her see whether the potatoes are ready or not.

番

fa̅n = f + an1

foreign (non-Chinese) / barbarian / classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance) / classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc) / classifier for situations: kind, sort

番 = 田 + 釆 : Frankenstein's Monster (f) is growing tomatoes (番) from a foreign country (番) on a field (田) in front of the anthill (an1). From time to time he uses a sampling tool (釆) to draw some ketchup (番) to see if the tomatoes are ready yet.

番

pa̅n = p + an1

surname Pan

禺

yù = yu + Ø4

legendary monkey of ancient China

禺 = 甲 + 禸 : Mnemonic symbol: 禺狨王

Yu the Great (yu) wanted to rally against the terrible reign of 禺狨王, but he found out about it. In the space station's bathroom (Ø4), he finds Yu the Great and tramples (禸) on her protest placard (甲).

禺

ǒu = Ø + ou3

archaic variant of 偶[ou3]

禺

yú = yu + Ø2

ancient area

畀

bì = bi + Ø4

to confer on / to give to

畀 = 丌 + 田 : Brunhilde (bi) worked very hard on her melon field (田) all day in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). At the end of the day, she puts her melons on a pedestal (丌) to confer (畀) them to the wholesale people.

畺

jia̅ng = ji + ang1

old variant of 疆[jiang1]

畺 = 三 + 田 + 田 : Mnemonic symbol: if you rotate the character by 90 degrees, it looks just like a wire mesh fence.

Joan of Arc (ji) planted two fields (田) of coordinate systems (三) in front of the anglepod (ang1). To protect her fields she puts a wire mesh fence (畺) around each of them.

曽

céng = c + (e)ng2

Japanese variant of 曾[ceng2]

畄

liú = li + ou2

old variant of 留[liu2]