precipice / cliff / Taiwan pr. [yai2]

= + : Maud Younger (y) has been eating chocolate bars (厓) with a fork (山) in the ashram's kitchen (a2) for hours now. She throws the packaging just over her shoulder, where already a precipitous (崖) cliff (崖) has formed from all the plastic.

崖 character breakdown

old form of 崖 (cliff) and 涯 (bank)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a chocolate bar.

Maud Younger (y) used to create fake chocolate bars (厓) in the ashram's kitchen (a2) by having jade tablets (圭) run through a chocolate factory (厂). She was found out though and pushed over a cliff (厓) as punishment.
mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 山 looks like the tip of a fork. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is climbing a mountain (山) in front of the anthill (an1). He uses a dinosaur bone (〡) as walking stick, and to have better grip he attached a fork (山) to its tip. Unfortunately he accidentally sticks the fork into a receptacle (凵) on the ground of the mountain and gets shocked.

Characters with 崖 as component

to growl (of dog) / to bare fangs
old variant of 涯[ya2]

Words with 崖

precipice / overhanging cliff
lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom) / fig. to act in the nick of time
sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces (idiom)
sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces (idiom)
steep cliff / crag / precipice
(bird species of China) pale martin (Riparia diluta)
Zhuya, historic name for Hainan Island 海南島|海南岛[Hai3 nan2 Dao3]
Qiongya, historic name for Hainan Island 海南島|海南岛[Hai3 nan2 Dao3]
Mang'ai county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[Hai3 xi1 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai
Mang'ai county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[Hai3 xi1 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai
Mang'ai county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[Hai3 xi1 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai

Sentences with 崖

崖 currently does not appear in any sentence.