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

leaf (CL:片[pian4]) / (slang) marijuana
frontal lobe
bay leaf / laurel leaf
dicotyledon (plant family distinguished by two embryonic leaves, includes daisies, broadleaved trees, herbaceous plants)
(bird species of China) dark-necked tailorbird (Orthotomus atrogularis)
Sauropus spatulifolius Beille (shrub of the Euphorbiaceae family)
(of plants) to grow luxuriantly; (fig.) (of a family or business etc) to prosper; to flourish
temporal lobe
(slang) to smoke pot

Sentences with 叶

叶 currently does not appear in any sentence.