靡

mí = mi + Ø2

to waste (money)

靡

mǐ = mi + Ø3

extravagant / go with fashion / not

靡 character breakdown

靡
- 麻
  - 广
    - 丿
    - 亠
      - 一
      - 丶
  - 林
    - 木
      - 八
        
        丿
        
        ㇏
      - 十
        
        一
        
        丨
- 非
  - 三
    - 一
    - 二
      - 一
  - 丨
  - 丿

麻

蔴

má = m + a2

variant of 麻[ma2] / hemp

麻 = 广 + 林 : Mahatma Gandhi (m) is busy deploying Christmas Trees (林) in the ashram's kitchen (a2). He attaches each of the small forest's (林) trees to a parachute (广) using flax fiber (麻) and then throws them towards their destination.

非

fe̅i = f + ei1

abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa

非

fe̅i = f + ei1

to not be; not / wrong; incorrect / non-; un-; in-; de- / to reproach; to blame / (coll.) to insist on; simply must

非 = 三 + 丿 + 丨 : Mnemonic symbol: a negative film (photography).

Frankenstein's monster (f) made an effort to photograph the Eiffel Tower (ei1), but now his negative (非) is a big mess. In front of the tower he set up a camera on a Cartesian coordinate system (三) as a tripod, and he attached a banana (丿) and a dinosaur bone (丨) to the camera so that he can finely tune the angles. All was for naught as he now holds the messed up negative in his hands.

麻

má = m + a2

surname Ma

麻

má = m + a2

generic name for hemp, flax etc / hemp or flax fiber for textile materials / sesame / CL:縷|缕[lü3] / (of materials) rough or coarse / pocked / pitted / to have pins and needles or tingling / to feel numb