to plan / to seek / scheme

= + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) put up an advertisement on an advertising column (讠) in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). On the advertising he is playing "somewhere over the rainbow" on an ukulele (某), but his plan (谋) is that many people will come to hear his concert and before the concert he can give a long speech about India's independence to a lot of people.

谋 character breakdown

some / a certain / sb or sth indefinite / such-and-such

= + : Mnemonic symbol: someone playing "somewhere over the rainbow" on an ukulele.

In the outhouse, the cow has climbed a large Christmas tree and now she's too afraid and panicked to climb down again. Mahatma Gandhi comes to help with his ukulele, playing "somewhere over the rainbow" to calm down the cow.
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).

Characters with 谋 as component

谋 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 谋

conspiracy / secret plan / to conspire
lit. deep plans and distant thoughts / to plan far ahead (idiom)
trickery / tactics
Zhang Yimou (1950-), PRC film director
stratagem / scheme / shrewdness
a well-thought out long-term strategy
profound or erudite plans
to do business / to manage / to strive for / to use every possible means (toward a goal)
unable to plan / inept at strategy (idiom)
to secretly plan treason (idiom)
stratagem (political or military) / trick
lit. ask passers-by how to build one's house (idiom); fig. to have no idea what to do / without a clue
to work out a strategy / to come up with a plan for
resourceful and decisive; resolute and sagacious
resourceful and decisive / resolute and sagacious
(idiom) great plans can be ruined by just a touch of impatience
to consider / to turn over in one's mind
bold but not very astute (idiom)

Sentences with 谋

zhè
shì
mǎ
tia̅n
ju̅n
zuò
shì
lǔ
mǎng
 
 
huài
le
ji̅
móu