崖沙燕

崖

yá

沙

sha̅

燕

yàn

(bird species of China) sand martin (Riparia riparia)

Characters and words in 崖沙燕

崖

yá = y + a2

precipice / cliff / Taiwan pr. [yai2]

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崖 = 厓 + 山 : 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.

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沙

sha̅ = sh + a1

granule / hoarse / raspy / sand / powder / CL:粒[li4] / abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia

Add a new mnemonic for 沙 = 少 + 氵

沙 = 少 + 氵 : Sherlock Holmes (sh) is selling bottles (氵) in front of the ashram (a1). Smiley (少) comes round because thon is very thirsty and buys a bottle, just to find out that it contains only sand (沙).

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燕

ya̅n = y + an1

Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in modern Hebei and Liaoning / north Hebei / the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409-436) / surname Yan

Add a new mnemonic for 燕 = 北 + 口 + 廿 + 灬

燕

yàn = y + an4

swallow (family Hirundinidae) / old variant of 宴[yan4]

Add a new mnemonic for 燕 = 北 + 口 + 廿 + 灬

燕 = 北 + 口 + 廿 + 灬 : Maud Younger (y) put a swallow (燕) on a grill (灬) in the anthill's bathroom (an4), but before she did that she oriented the grill towards east using a compass rose (北). She also put a mandarin (口) in the swallow's mouth. Later she'll put the swallow in a flower pot (廿) when it is done.

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燕

鷰

yàn = y + an4

variant of 燕[yan4]

Add a new mnemonic for 燕 = 北 + 口 + 廿 + 灬

Add a new mnemonic for 鷰 = 廿 + 北 + 口 + 鳥