to fit / balanced / suitable
to weigh / to state / to name / name / appellation / to praise

= + : Charlie Chaplin practices eating cereals blindfolded in front of the engine. As he is eating he wonders why the bowl is suddenly so heavy. The reason is that a peace dove sat down on the bowl and eats the cereals as well. The peace dove names Charlie Chaplin a real idiot because he doesn't notice.
variant of 秤[cheng4] / steelyard

称 character breakdown

variant of 爾|尔[er3]
thus / so / like that / you / thou

= + : Mnemonic symbol derived from the components: a peace dove. Albert Einstein (Ø) wants to send a message of peace to earth from the space station's living room (Ø3). He wanted to give a dove (尔) a daisy (小) so that it can bring it to earth, but the dove is late! Albert has no choice but to give it to a passing crane (⺈) instead. Thus, the crane flies to earth with the daisy in his beak, just like a peace dove.
cereal / grain

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: a bowl of cereals.

Hamlet (h) made himself a bowl of cereals (禾) with bananas (丿) and Christmas trees (木) in the elevator's kitchen (e2). He holds the bowl of cereals like he would hold Yorick's skull.

Characters with 称 as component

称 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 称

to assert / to claim
name (of a thing) / name (of an organization)
symmetry / symmetrical
can be rated as / can be said to be
term of endearment / pet name / diminutive
to jokingly call / jocular appellation
to make a false and unwarranted declaration
copyright / rights to a trademark
designation / reference / to refer to
symmetry (as an aesthetic quality)
axis of symmetry / central axis (in Chinese architecture)
in the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king (idiom) / (depending on the source, the last word is either 大王[da4 wang2] or 大王[dai4 wang5])
also called / also known as / a.k.a.
to cluck one's tongue in wonder
to click one's tongue in wonder (idiom) / to be astonished
euphemism (tactful expression for sth unpleasant such as death)
title / official appellation

Sentences with 称

ǎn
lǎo
su̅n
méi
yǒu
yi̅
jiàn
chèn
shǒu
de
bi̅ng
qì