壽
surname Shou
寿
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丰
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寸
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Mnemonic symbol: 寿桃包, a longevity peach bun.
Sherlock Holmes (sh) wants to have a long life, so he decided to just stay in a golden cage (丰) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4) and has someone bring him longevity peach buns (寿) every now and then. Every time he gets his snack he gives the person the thumbs up (寸).
Sherlock Holmes (sh) wants to have a long life, so he decided to just stay in a golden cage (丰) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4) and has someone bring him longevity peach buns (寿) every now and then. Every time he gets his snack he gives the person the thumbs up (寸).
long life / old age / age / life / birthday / funerary
寿
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丰
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寸
:
Mnemonic symbol: 寿桃包, a longevity peach bun.
Sherlock Holmes (sh) wants to have a long life, so he decided to just stay in a golden cage (丰) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4) and has someone bring him longevity peach buns (寿) every now and then. Every time he gets his snack he gives the person the thumbs up (寸).
Sherlock Holmes (sh) wants to have a long life, so he decided to just stay in a golden cage (丰) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4) and has someone bring him longevity peach buns (寿) every now and then. Every time he gets his snack he gives the person the thumbs up (寸).
壽 character breakdown
second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方[yi3 fang1], as opposed to 甲方[jia3 fang1]) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105°
Who's second always gets a silver medal.
Maud Younger is proudly holding her silver medal in the camera.
The character 乙 actually looks like the character 2.
member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker
work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor
工
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二
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丨
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Mnemonic symbol: a steel beam, since 工 looks like the cross section of a steel beam.
Gitta Giraffe (gu) is working a shift in front of the engine ((e)ng1). Her job is to melt dinosaur bones (丨) so that they can be disposed off easily. To melt the bones, she is shorting a huge capacitor (二) with a steel beam (工) which consequently heats up to a bright glow. Using the glowing hot steel beam she can melt the dinosaur bone easily.
Gitta Giraffe (gu) is working a shift in front of the engine ((e)ng1). Her job is to melt dinosaur bones (丨) so that they can be disposed off easily. To melt the bones, she is shorting a huge capacitor (二) with a steel beam (工) which consequently heats up to a bright glow. Using the glowing hot steel beam she can melt the dinosaur bone easily.
Characters with 壽 as component
chip (in gambling) / token (for counting) / ticket / to prepare / to plan / to raise (funds) / resource / means
筹
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⺮
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寿
:
Charlie Chaplin (ch) is gambling in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). He already lost a couple of longevity peach buns (寿), and his debt is engraved on a bamboo stick (⺮) which serves as token for counting (筹). To win his longevity peach buns back he devises a strategy: he plans (筹) to use crowd funding (筹) to make up for his loss.
chip (in gambling); token (for counting); ticket / to prepare; to plan; to raise (funds) / resource; way; means
big wave / Taiwan pr. [tao2]
Words with 壽
boundless life (expression of good wishes) / Amitayus, the Buddha of measureless life, good fortune and wisdom
Changshou suburban district of Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan
Chen Shou (233-297), Western Jin dynasty 西晉|西晋[Xi1 Jin4] historian, author of History of the Three Kingdoms 三國志|三国志[San1 guo2 zhi4]
giant Amazon snail (Ampullaria gigas spix) that has devastated rice paddies in China since its introduction in the 1980s
(bird species of China) Japanese paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone atrocaudata)
Sentences with 壽
壽 currently does not appear in any sentence.