Mnemonic comic for 八
Mnemonic
Mnemonic symbol: an eight-ball.
Beelzebub (b-) wants to find new ways to lure people into playing pool billiard. To this end he is meditating on top of an eight-ball (八) in front of the Ashram (a1). He uses a finger (㇏) and a banana (丿) as incense to create the right atmosphere.
八 character breakdown
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]
Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).
Characters with 八 as component
small / tiny / few / young
小
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八
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亅
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Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.
Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).
Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden
to divide; to separate / to distribute; to allocate / to distinguish (good and bad) / (bound form) branch of (an organization); sub- (as in 分局[fen1 ju2]) / fraction / one tenth (of certain units) / unit of length equivalent to 0.33 cm / minute (unit of time) / minute (angular measurement unit) / a point (in sports or games) / 0.01 yuan (unit of money)
his / her / its / their / that / such / it (refers to sth preceding it)
feeling or desire to do sth / interest in sth / excitement
to rise / to flourish / to become popular / to start / to encourage / to get up / (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect) / maybe (dialect)
only / merely / just / but
只
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八
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口
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Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like something (a head?) on two legs. I'll just represent it by a cuttlefish (只). James II of England (zh) has been in the space station (Ø3) as the only (只) one for too long and went mad. He thinks he's holding a mandarin (口), but he's just about to bite into merely (只) an eight ball (八). On the top of his head is a cuttlefish (只) he mistook for a hat.
classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
surname Huang or Hwang
黄
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井
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由
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八
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Mnemonic symbol: the Yellow Emperor.
Helga Horse invited the Yellow Emperor to join her visit anglepod. In the kitchen, he falls for her trap: Helga prepared a field of eight balls on which the Yellow Emperor trips. As he falls into the well behind the field of eight balls, Helga neighs and laughs loudly at him.
Helga Horse invited the Yellow Emperor to join her visit anglepod. In the kitchen, he falls for her trap: Helga prepared a field of eight balls on which the Yellow Emperor trips. As he falls into the well behind the field of eight balls, Helga neighs and laughs loudly at him.
Words with 八
Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900
"the Eight Great Eminent Officials" of the CCP, namely 鄧小平|邓小平[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2], 陳雲|陈云[Chen2 Yun2], 李先念[Li3 Xian1 nian4], 彭真[Peng2 Zhen1], 楊尚昆|杨尚昆[Yang2 Shang4 kun1], 薄一波[Bo2 Yi1 bo1], 王震[Wang2 Zhen4], and 宋任窮|宋任穷[Song4 Ren4 qiong2] / abbr. to 八老[Ba1 lao3]
G8 (group of eight major industrialized nations)
the eight major cuisines of China, namely 川魯粵蘇浙閩湘徽|川鲁粤苏浙闽湘徽[Chuan1 Lu3 Yue4 Su1 Zhe4 Min3 Xiang1 Hui1]
the eight-character slogan for the economic policy proposed by 李富春[Li3 Fu4 chun1] in 1961: 調整、鞏固、充實、提高|调整、巩固、充实、提高 "adjust, consolidate, enrich and improve" / a policy expressed as an eight-character slogan
lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八[ba1] (idiom) / fig. things have not even begun to take shape / no sign of success yet
lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八[ba1] (idiom) / fig. things have not even begun to take shape / no sign of success yet