亢

surname Kang / Kang, one of the 28 constellations

亢 = 亠 + 几 : Mnemonic symbol: a turtleneck sweater.

Karl Marx suffers from a writer's block, so he decides to stimulate his writing by creating a writer's environment. He dresses like the classical poets wearing a turtleneck and putting on a beret. Then he sets up his small table in the anglepod's bathroom and continues writing.

亢

kàng = k + ang4

high / overbearing / excessive

亢 character breakdown

亢
- 亠
  - 一
  - 丶
- 几

亠

tóu = t + ou2

"lid" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 8)

亠 = 丶 + 一 : Mnemonic symbol: 亠 looks like a beret. Tecumseh (t) is killing time in the Outhouse's kitchen (ou2) by playing a game. His goal is to blow a petal leaf (丶) into a beret (亠) by blowing air through a flute (一).

几

ji̅ = ji + Ø1

small table

Joan of Arc (ji) is sitting at a small table (几) in front of the space station (Ø1) and reading her Bible, waiting for a message from God.

几

幾

ji̅ = ji + Ø1

almost

几

幾

jǐ = ji + Ø3

how much / how many / several / a few

Characters with 亢 as component

航

háng = h + ang2

boat / ship / craft / to navigate / to sail / to fly

航 = 亢 + 舟 : Hamlet (h) decided to run away to sea 13 years ago. Now, having sailed (航) the seven seas, he's an accomplished captain and looking out of his yellow submarine (舟) wearing a turtleneck sweater (亢) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2).

抗

kàng = k + ang4

to resist / to fight / to defy / anti-

抗 = 亢 + 扌 : After hours of creative thinking in Angwor Wat's bathroom and not coming up with anything, Karl Marx decides to fight his image of successful authorship and rips his turtleneck to pieces using two toy claws.

坑

阬

ke̅ng = k + (e)ng1

variant of 坑[keng1] / pit / hole

坑 = 亢 + 土 : Karl Marx (k) finds out that turtleneck sweaters (亢) are completely out of fashion now, so in front of the engine ((e)ng1) he digs a deep pit (坑), throws the sweater inside and fills the pit with earth (土).

坑

ke̅ng = k + (e)ng1

hole / pit / tunnel / to defraud