呆
foolish / stupid / expressionless / blank / to stay
呆
=
口
+
木
:
The fool (呆) wants to make fun of Don Quixote (d) in front of the airplane (ai1). To fool him, he set up a Christmas tree (木) to look like a huge animal by putting a mandarin (口) on top which looks like the head of the animal. Don Quixote thinks he met his arch enemy and starts to charge the construction, much to the fool's delight.
呆 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).
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden
Characters with 呆 as component
Bulgaria / Bulgarian / abbr. for 保加利亞|保加利亚[Bao3 jia1 li4 ya4]
to defend; to protect; to keep / to guarantee; to ensure / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old)
old variant of 梅[mei2]
cherry-apple
male nettle-hemp
(Internet slang) emphatic variant of 呆[dai1]
Words with 呆
Sentences with 呆
呆 currently does not appear in any sentence.