殳

surname Shu

bamboo or wooden spear / Kangxi radical 79, occurring in 段[duan4], 毅[yi4], 殺|杀[sha1] etc

殳 = 几 + 又 : Sheldon Shrimp (shu-) is practising his martial arts skills in front of the space station (-1). He's a specialist in the combined halberd (symbol for 殳) boxing style, and practises smashing tables (几) with his sucker punch (symbol for 又).

殳 character breakdown

殳
- 几
- 又
  - ㇏
  - ㇇

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.

又

yòu = y + ou4

(once) again / also / both... and... / and yet / (used for emphasis) anyway

又 = ㇇ + ㇏ : And once again (又), Maud Younger (y) is preparing for battle. She's donning her boxing glove in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), puts on a beak (㇇) and plans go give her opponent the finger (㇏).

几

幾

ji̅ = ji + Ø1

almost

几

幾

jǐ = ji + Ø3

how much / how many / several / a few

Characters with 殳 as component

谷

穀

gǔ = gu + Ø3

grain / corn

谷 = 人 + 八 + 口 : Gitta Giraffe conducts an experiment in the space station. She shows Neanderthal Man three things: a mandarin, popcorn, and an eight-ball, and records how much he likes to eat each of these. Neanderthal Man thinks that the eight ball is a little crunchy.

谷 = 人 + 八 + 口 : Mnemonic symbol: popcorn.

杀

殺

sha̅ = sh + a1

to kill / to murder / to attack / to weaken or reduce / to smart (dialect) / (used after a verb) extremely

杀 = 乂 + 朩 : Sherlock Holmes (sh) is messing around with a sewage pipe sticking out of the floor (朩) in front of the ashram (a1) using pliers (乂). To reduce (杀) the marks he left he is trying to rub them off with an eraser (杀).

发

發

fa̅ = f + a1

to send out / to show (one's feeling) / to issue / to develop / to make a bundle of money / classifier for gunshots (rounds)

壳

殼

qiào = qi + ao4

shell / carapace / crust (earth's crust etc) / also pr. [ke2]

壳 = 冗 + 士 : The Queen of Hearts (qi) is dating the bachelor (士) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4). The bachelor tries to impress the Queen of Hearts and inhaled a lot of helium (冗), but instead of sounding funny he is just squealing so much that the Queen of Hearts hides under her carapace (壳).

设

設

shè = sh + e4

to set up / to arrange / to establish / to found / to display

设 = 殳 + 讠 : Recently Sherlock Holmes had less and less customers, so he wants to set up an advertising campaign. He starts in the elevator's bathroom setting up an advertising column. It is lying on the floor, and Sherlock tries to lever it up using a halberd.

殴

毆

o̅u = Ø + ou1

surname Ou

殴 = 区 + 殳 : In front of the outhouse (ou1) the alien from area 51 (区) is beating up (殴) Albert Einstein (Ø) with a halberd (殳).

毁

毀

huǐ = hu + ei3

to destroy / to damage / to ruin / to defame / to slander

毁 = 臼 + 工 + 殳 : Helga Horse (hu) wants to destroy (毁) a left over steel beam (工) in the Eiffel Tower (ei3) and uses a halberd (殳) to pulverize it in a mortar (臼). During this process she does not only destroy the steel beam, but also the halberd.

毁

毀

huǐ = hu + ei3

to destroy; to ruin / to defame; to slander

殷

yi̅n = y + (e)n1

surname Yin / dynasty name at the end the Shang dynasty, after their move to Yinxu 殷墟 in modern Henan province

殷

ya̅n = y + an1

dark red

殷

yi̅n = y + (e)n1