合

gě = g + e3

100 ml / one-tenth of a peck / measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗

hé = h + e2

to close / to join / to fit / to be equal to / whole / together / round (in battle) / conjunction (astronomy) / 1st note of pentatonic scale / old variant of 盒[he2]

合 = 亼 + 口 : Mnemonic symbol: a tube of glue.

In the elevator's kitchen (e2), Hamlet (h) is preparing holiday decorations. He wants to be lazy and cover Halloween as well as Christmas at the same time, so he carved out a mandarin (口) and glued a pointed cap (亼) to its top using a tube of glue (合).

合

閤

hé = h + e2

variant of 合[he2]

合 character breakdown

合
- 亼
  - 一
  - 人
    - 丿
    - ㇏
- 口

亼

jí = ji + Ø2

variant of 集[ji2]

亼 = 一 + 人 : This one looks like a pointed cap.

Joan of Arc (ji) is going to have her first day of school the next day. During the night she sneaked into the space station's kitchen (Ø2) and found a pointed cap (亼) filled with sweets, which she starts eating immediately.

口

kǒu = k + ou3

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

Characters with 合 as component

拿

拏

ná = n + a2

variant of 拿[na2]

拿 = 合 + 手 : In the ashram's kitchen, Napoleon sees something flying towards him and instinctively catches it with his baseball glove. He realizes too late that what he holds in his hand is a tub of glue which ruined his glove.

拿

㧱

ná = n + a2

old variant of 拿[na2]

拿

ná = n + a2

to hold / to seize / to catch / to apprehend / to take / (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)

给

給

jǐ = ji + Ø3

to supply / to provide

给

給

gěi = g + ei3

to / for / for the benefit of / to give / to allow / to do sth (for sb) / (grammatical equivalent of 被) / (grammatical equivalent of 把) / (sentence intensifier)

给 = 合 + 纟 : Inside of the Eiffel Tower, a little silk worm is exceptional desperate, because she is unable to produce a silken thread. Fortunately Guy Fawkes has a solution: He gives her a tube of glue as a present, which he decorated with a little ribbon. With the glue, the silk worm is able to produce long sticky threads again.

答

da̅ = d + a1

bound form having the same meaning as the free word 答[da2], used in 答應|答应[da1 ying5], 答理[da1 li5] etc

答

dá = d + a2

to answer / to reply / to respond

答 = ⺮ + 合 : Mnemonic symbol: a hand held sonar.

Don Quixote uses some glue to glue a hand held sonar to a bamboo stick just inside the ashram's kitchen. Stupid thinks that the sonar is a camera and wants to shoot a selfie.

哈

ha̅ = h + a1

abbr. for 哈薩克斯坦|哈萨克斯坦[Ha1 sa4 ke4 si1 tan3], Kazakhstan / abbr. for 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[Ha1 er3 bin1], Harbin

哈 = 口 + 合 : Hamlet built a tower of mandarins by gluing them together using a tube of glue in front of the ashram. When watching the mandarin tower he feels so overjoyed that he laughs heartily.

哈

hǎ = h + a3

a Pekinese / a pug / (dialect) to scold

哈

ha̅ = h + a1

(interj.) ha! / (onom. for laughter) / (slang) to be infatuated with / to adore / abbr. for 哈士奇[ha1 shi4 qi2], husky (dog)