只
only / merely / just / but
只
=
八
+
口
:
Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like something (a head?) on two legs. I'll just represent it by a cuttlefish (只). James II of England (zh) has been in the space station (Ø3) as the only (只) one for too long and went mad. He thinks he's holding a mandarin (口), but he's just about to bite into merely (只) an eight ball (八). On the top of his head is a cuttlefish (只) he mistook for a hat.
只 character breakdown
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
eight; 8
Characters with 只 as component
to amass / to accumulate / to store / measured quantity (such as area of volume) / product (the result of multiplication) / to integrate (math.) / to solve (or integrate) an ordinary differential equation (math.) / old / long-standing
Words with 只
to see (the same thing) over and over again / to see, to one's surprise, (sth happen suddenly)
there is nothing the determined person can't accomplish (idiom) / persistence will overcome
lit. a chicken and a bottle of wine (idiom); fig. ready to make an offering to the deceased, or to entertain guests
to see what others fail to see (idiom) / to have exceptional insight
lit. a lonely body with only a shadow for company / to be all alone (idiom)
to have a foot in both camps / to have a bet each way / to be having an affair
lit. everything is ready, all we need is an east wind (idiom) / fig. lacking only one tiny crucial item