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

Ye county in Pingdingshan 平頂山|平顶山[Ping2 ding3 shan1], Henan
blade (of propellor) / vane / leaf
a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.
liverwort (Jungermannia lanceolata)
turbine wheel
Ye Xuanping (1924-2019), former Governor of Guangdong 廣東|广东[Guang3 dong1]
Yerevan, capital of Armenia (Tw)
(botany) leaf sheath
foliated / striated into thin leaves
Jesse (name)
Michael Grant Ignatieff (1947-), leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
Ye Shengtao (1894-1988), writer and editor, known esp. for children's books
venation (pattern of veins on a leaf)
leaf venation (botany) / the pattern of veins on a leaf, characteristic of each species

Sentences with 叶

叶 currently does not appear in any sentence.