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, 2 months 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

tea / tea leaves / CL:盒[he2],罐[guan4],包[bao1],片[pian4]
dead leaves / to lose leaves (of plants) / deciduous
larch tree (Pinus larix) / deciduous pine tree
mugwort leaf (TCM) / Folium Artemisiae argyi
mugwort leaf oil (TCM) / also called wormwood leaf oil / Oleum folii Artemisiae argyi
carbonized mugwort leaf (used in TCM) / Folium Artemisiae argyi carbonisatum
Juliet or Juliette (name)
tea egg (egg boiled with flavorings which may include black tea)
deciduous plant / deciduous vegetation
Getting Home, 2007 PRC comedy-drama film directed by 張揚|张扬[Zhang1 Yang2], starring 趙本山|赵本山[Zhao4 Ben3 shan1]
lit. a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / fig. all things go back to their source eventually / in old age, an expatriate returns home
Romeo and Juliet, 1594 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
bipinnate leaf (in phyllotaxy)
lobe of the brain

Sentences with 叶

叶 currently does not appear in any sentence.