(long) time / (long) duration of time

= + : Mnemonic symbol: hourglass.

= + : Joan of Arc and the elephant are visiting the outhouse, and they have been looking at the Mona Lisa for hours. Impatiently, Joan of Arc looks at her hourglass telling them that they have been standing there like that for three and a half hours, so she's poking the elephant with a finger to tell him to move on.

久 character breakdown

archaic variant of 包[bao1]

= 丿 + : 勹 looks like an elephant: 丿 looks like the edge of the ear and ㇆ looks like the head and trunk.

Beelzebub (b) rides an elephant in front of the aorta (ao1), turning the soil with a plow (㇆). Lots of bananas (丿) are revealed in the turned earth.
Right-falling stroke

Mnemonic symbol: this one looks like a finger.

Napoleon (n) is giving you the finger (㇏) in the ashram's bathroom (a4).

Characters with 久 as component

moxibustion (TCM)

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) is preparing for her next battle with a moxibustion (灸) session in the outhouse's living room (ou3). She needs to wait for the hourglass (久) to run out before she can put out the fire (火) on her back.
classifier for fields / unit of area equal to one fifteenth of a hectare

= + : When Malte Monkey (mu) was tilling his field (田) in the space station he lost his beret (亠) and now it must be buried under the earth. He'll have to search the whole field. Too bad for him that he has a whole hectare (亩) to search.
old variant of 畝|亩[mu3]
black jade / nine (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
chronic disease / guilt / remorse
to lead

Words with 久

(of time) how long? / (not) a long time
not long ago / not long before
over time / as time passes / in the fullness of time
your name has been known to me for a long time (polite)
well tested over a long period of time (idiom) / seasoned
enduring while the world lasts (idiom, from Laozi); eternal / for ever and ever (of friendship, hate etc) / also written 天長地久|天长地久
Oukubo Toshimichi (1830-1878), Japanese politician
lit. that which is long divided must unify, and that which is long unified must divide (idiom, from 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4]) / fig. things are constantly changing
Auld Lang Syne, Scottish song with lyrics by Robert Burns 羅伯特·伯恩斯|罗伯特·伯恩斯[Luo2 bo2 te4 · Bo2 en1 si1], sung to mark the start of a new year or as a farewell / also rendered 友誼萬歲|友谊万岁[You3 yi4 wan4 sui4] or 友誼天長地久|友谊天长地久[You3 yi4 tian1 chang2 di4 jiu3]
see 友誼地久天長|友谊地久天长[You3 yi4 di4 jiu3 tian1 chang2]

Sentences with 久

zhǐ
shì
yǎng
zài
tia̅n
shàng
 
 
rì
zi
jiǔ
le
yòu
yào
she̅ng
shì