Mnemonic comic for 叶

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

xié = xi + e2

to be in harmony

yè = y + e4

leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats / a surname

叶 = 十 + 口 : 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.

叶 = 十 + 口 : 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

叶
- 十
  - 一
  - 丨
- 口

shí = sh + Ø2

ten / 10

十 = 一 + 丨 : 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).

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 叶 as component

叶 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 叶

foliage / leaf / CL:片[pian4] / (slang) marijuana / weed

Yeltsin (name) / Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) first post-communist president of Russia 1991-1999

Yekaterina or Ekaterina (name) / Catherine the Great or Catherine the Second (1684-1727), Empress of Russia

Yekaterinburg (Russian city, also known as Ekaterinburg or Sverdlovsk)

Ekaterinaburg or Ekaterinburg (formerly Sverdlovsk), Russian town on the Ural mountains

Phyllostomatidae (zoology)

Yip Man (1893-1972), martial arts practitioner, master of Bruce Lee

Qaghiliq nahiyisi (Kargilik county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang

Qaghiliq nahiyisi (Kargilik county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang

leaf arrangement / phyllotaxy (botany)

(Tw) fender (automotive)

leaf arrangement / phyllotaxy (botany)

Ye Ting (1896-1946), communist military leader

pulvini

petiole / leafstalk

Ye Yonglie (1940-), popular science writer

Ye Jiangchuan

alias of 葉偉民|叶伟民[Ye4 Wei3 min2]

Raymond YIP Wai-Man, Hong Kong film director (debut as director: 1994)

lit. Lord Ye's passion for dragons (idiom) / fig. to pretend to be fond of sth while actually fearing it / ostensible fondness of sth one really fears

Sentences with 叶

叶 currently does not appear in any sentence.