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
to wave a chicken feather as a token of authority (idiom); to assume unwarranted authority on the basis of some pretext
lit. to insult a bald man while pointing at a monk (idiom) / fig. to insult indirectly / to criticize obliquely
to pretend to not know / to play dumb
to be unable to make any sense of the matter / to be at a loss
to wade across the river, feeling for footholds as one goes (idiom) / to advance cautiously, step by step / to feel one's way forward