chaste

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a girdle of chastity. James II of England (zh) wants to get rid of his girdle of chastity (贞). In front of the encampment ((e)n1) he asks the crab (贝) to destroy the girdle, but the crab waves with a pennant (⺊) instead to alarm the royal guard.

贞 character breakdown

(bound form) to divine / to forecast or estimate / (of a place to live etc) to choose

= + : Mnemonic symbol from "to divine" and the shape of the character: a voodoo staff.

Bruno Bear (bu-) tries to divine (卜) the future in the space station's living room (Ø3). He places a petal (丶) in the middle of the room as an offering and starts a magic ritual with his voodoo staff (卜). The staff transforms the petal into a dinosaur bone (丨). Bruno divines that the staff was trying to tell him that all things are mortal and must come to an end.
see 蘿蔔|萝卜[luo2 bo5]
cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a crab. In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), the Neanderthal man (人) and Beelzebub (b) are fighting a crab with staplers (⺆), but because the Neanderthal man (人) can't handle the stapler he accidentally staples himself in the forehead.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= + : Mnemonic symbol: ⺊ looks a bit like a pennant.

Someone stuck a flute into the middle of a hollow dinosaur bone to conduct studies on the speed of sound. At the one end of the hollow dinosaur bone is an answering pennant, used in the International Signal Code primarily for the reply "signal is received and understood", which should be raised as soon as the person is hearing the sound made by the flute.

Characters with 贞 as component

to scout / to spy / to detect

= + : Rosa Luxemburg (亻) is detecting (侦) a crime in front of the encampment ((e)n1). She only has to do very little detective (侦) work to find out that the James II of England (zh) broke the law by removing his chastity belt (贞).
old variant of 偵|侦[zhen1]
auspicious / lucky
evergreen shrub
frame / classifier for paintings etc / Taiwan pr. [zheng4]
river in Guangdong province
deep red

Words with 贞

(usually of women) chastity / virginity / virtue / honor / loyalty / moral integrity
Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English / also called Jehanne Darc, the Maid or Orleans, Joan of Arc or St Joan
chastity / virginity (of women) / moral integrity (of men) / loyalty / constancy
ready to die to preserve one's chastity

Sentences with 贞

贞 currently does not appear in any sentence.