Mnemonic comic for

Translation

yè = y + e4: leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats / a surname

Mnemonic

Maud Younger (y) practised a trick shot all day in the elevator's bathroom (e4). She's now able to throw a leaf (叶) high in the air, then quickly throw a mandarin (口) and beat the mandarin with a cross (十) like a baseball with a bat so that the mandarin rips a hole right into the leaf.

All translations for 叶

to be in harmony
leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats / a surname

= + : Maud Younger (y) practised a trick shot all day in the elevator's bathroom (e4). She's now able to throw a leaf (叶) high in the air, then quickly throw a mandarin (口) and beat the mandarin with a cross (十) like a baseball with a bat so that the mandarin rips a hole right into the leaf.

= + : You could see the cross 十 as the leaves 叶 of the mandarin 口.

Comments

I'm a bit underwhelmed with how this comic turned out but it's just good enough.

Matthias, 22 days ago

叶 character breakdown

ten / 10

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).
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 叶 as component

叶 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 叶

Juliet or Juliette (name)
branch and leaf
dead leaf / withered leaf
lancet (surgeon's knife)
see 柳眉[liu3 mei2]
deep roots and vigorous foliage (idiom) / (fig.) well established and growing strongly
Charles Messier (1730-1817), French astronomer who catalogued nebulas and galaxies
Messier catalog of nebulae and clusters (1784)
Agent Orange (herbicide)
Sanskrit on Talipot palm leaves (idiom); Buddhist scripture
leaf (usually bamboo or reed leaf) used to wrap 粽子[zong4 zi5] sticky rice dumplings
occipital lobe
see 樹高千丈,葉落歸根|树高千丈,叶落归根[shu4 gao1 qian1 zhang4 , ye4 luo4 gui1 gen1]
fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home
(bird species of China) orange-bellied leafbird (Chloropsis hardwickii)
Phrynium capitatum

Sentences with 叶

叶 currently does not appear in any sentence.