towel / general purpose cloth / women's headcovering (old) / Kangxi radical 50

= + : Joan of Arc has smuggled a dinosaur bone out of the encampment. To hide it, she covered it in maps and towels.

巾 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Gitta Giraffe (gu-) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's living room ((e)n3).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13), occurring in 用[yong4], 同[tong2], 網|网[wang3] etc, referred to as 同字框[tong2 zi4 kuang4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol from the shape of the character: kind of looks like a map.

Zeus (ju) found a secret map (冂) that tells the location of a golden dinosaur bone (丨) in front of the engine ((e)ng1), so he took a plow (㇆) and dug up everything. He actually found a couple of dinosaur bones, but not a golden one.

Characters with 巾 as component

system / to control / to regulate / variant of 製|制[zhi4]
to manufacture / to make

= + + : James II of England (zh) and the bull (牛) have to work in a sweatshop in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) where they manufacture (制) one printed circuit board (制) after the other. Their only tools are kitchen knives (刂) with which they carve the boards. They sweat a lot, so each of them has a towel (巾) wrapped around their neck.
to suspend / to hang up / to hang a person

= + : Dorothy Gale is travelling and tries to find a way to hang up her towel in the aorta's bathroom. Finally, she came up with something: She forges a coat hanger out of mandarin peel and hangs her towel on it.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a coat hanger.
a string of 100 cash (arch.) / to lament / to condole with / variant of 吊[diao4]
market / city / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a supermarket.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) started a supermarket (市) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but all he has for sale right now are berets (亠) and towels (巾). He should have opened it at the beach!
cloth / to declare / to announce / to spread / to make known

= 𠂇 + : In the space station's bathroom, Bruno Bear is cutting a towel into stripes. He wants to use the stripes as eye masks and make the world a better place, helping people as a new super hero.

= 𠂇 + : Mnemonic symbol: The scissors cut a towel into stripes, which can be used as eye mask.
variant of 布[bu4] / to announce / to spread
money / coins / currency / silk

= 丿 + : Brunhilde (bi) wants to take a shower in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). Wearing only a towel (巾) she is fiddling with the coin (币) operated switch. She is to greedy to use a real coin, so she inserts a fake one. The machine detects the fake coin though and instead of water there are bananas (丿) coming out of the shower head.
surname Shuai

= + : The marshal (帅) insulted Sheldon Shrimp (shu) purposefully until Sheldon attacks him with a kitchen knife (刂) in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). His attacks always miss the target though because the marshal uses a towel (巾) to evade his attacks like a matador.
handsome / graceful / smart / commander in chief / (coll.) cool! / sweet!

= + : The marshal (帅) insulted Sheldon Shrimp (shu) purposefully until Sheldon attacks him with a kitchen knife (刂) in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). His attacks always miss the target though because the marshal uses a towel (巾) to evade his attacks like a matador.
(bound form) commander-in-chief / (bound form) to lead; to command / handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant / (coll.) cool!; sweet! / (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
hanging screen or curtain

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) is creating a new flag to be used by the anthill as a shop sign (帘). She's painting very beautiful cave paintings (穴) on a towel (巾) just inside the anthill's kitchen (an2). The owner is skeptic about his anthill being a cave or not, but he likes the flag anyway.
flag used as a shop sign / variant of 簾|帘[lian2]

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) is creating a new flag to be used by the anthill as a shop sign (帘). She's painting very beautiful cave paintings (穴) on a towel (巾) just inside the anthill's kitchen (an2). The owner is skeptic about his anthill being a cave or not, but he likes the flag anyway.
emperor

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: the great emperor Caesar.

Caesar prepared to sauna in the space station's bathroom, and he has his towel already around his neck when he prepares a new aufguss. Just as he wants to lift the vase, the cooking top on top of it lifts itself as Dorothy Gale looks out, laughing at Caesar.

Words with 巾

scarf / shawl / CL:條|条[tiao2]
hand towel / handkerchief
woman / woman's headdress (ancient)
headscarf / turban
(coll.) sanitary towel
(coll.) menstrual pad
see 戴綠帽子|戴绿帽子[dai4 lü4 mao4 zi5]
headband / strip of cloth worn around the head
sling (for a wounded arm)

Sentences with 巾

巾 currently does not appear in any sentence.