radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13), occurring in 用[yong4], 同[tong2], 網|网[wang3] etc, referred to as 同字框[tong2 zi4 kuang4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol from the shape of the character: kind of looks like a map.

Zeus (ju) found a secret map (冂) that tells the location of a golden dinosaur bone (丨) in front of the engine ((e)ng1), so he took a plow (㇆) and dug up everything. He actually found a couple of dinosaur bones, but not a golden one.

冂 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Gitta Giraffe (gu-) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's living room ((e)n3).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= + : Mnemonic symbol: ㇆ just looks like a plow.

Someone attached a flute to the top of a crowbar to create a new instrument. When the crowbar is bowed with a plow, the vibrations of the crowbar will transfer to the flute, which in turn is producing eerie sounds.

Characters with 冂 as component

variant of 冉[ran3]
velvetleaf (Abutilon avicennae), plant of the jute family / bright

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a very unhappy-looking velvetleaf plant.

= + + : Inside of the engine, Zeus is looking for the velvetleaf plant. He even has a map where it should be, but he can't find a single one. Frustrated he sits down on these funny round black stones, eats a mandarin and studies the map again. He doesn't realize that the black rocks are eight-balls, and that they have crushed the unhappy velvetleaf plants.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

Looks to me like a fighting claw.
trample

= + : Robinson Crusoe spent the whole day following a map around in the outhouse's kitchen, expecting to find an invaluable treasure. Instead he just found a fake nose, and infuriated, he tramples on this damned map.
Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC), mythical leader who tamed the floods / surname Yu

= + : Yu the Great (禹) studies a map (冂) in the space station's living room (Ø3) to build his dams, but he's confused about all the new rivers which seem to have formed recently. In reality Yu the Great (yu) played a prank on him: she put a slug (䖝) on the map which just left trails of slime.

= 丿 + + : Yu the Great (禹) wants to impress Yu the Great (yu) in the space station's living room (Ø3) and studies a map (冂) of the world's rivers. After he decided where he want to build his dikes, he sends out an armada of mosquitoes (虫) carrying bananas (丿). The mosquitoes will drop the bananas at the determined positions and build dams with them so as to control the waters. Yu the Great is mildly impressed by these efforts.
old variant of 帽[mao4] / hat / cap

= + : A basecap. Mahatma Gandhi is looking at a map (冂) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4). There is a sign clearly stating that for hygienic reasons the map is not to be touched, but Mahatma Gandhi touches it anyway and gets shocked immediately by an attached capacitor (二). He gets shocked so terribly that his basecap (冃) jumps off of his head.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a skull.
stab

= + : Mnemonic symbol: someone wanting to stab someone else with a dagger.

The King of Chu is tired of Christmas and assassinates the Christmas tree in the space station's bathroom. To be on the safe side he does not only use a dagger to stab the Christmas tree, but also a stapler to staple it.
ancient ceramic three-legged vessel used for cooking with cord markings on the outside and hollow legs
earthen pot / iron cauldron

= 𠮛 + + + : Guy Fawkes (g) is cooking an advanced recipe—which he is reading from an ancient scroll (𠮛) he found—in the elevator's kitchen (e2). He already set up an iron cauldron (鬲). For the next step he slaughtered a mean crocodile (丷) and tries to find its T-bone steak (丅) by following a map (冂) which was attached to the scroll.

Words with 冂

冂 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 冂

冂 currently does not appear in any sentence.