Mnemonic comic for

Translation

rén = r + (e)n2: person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

Mnemonic

Mnemonic symbol: Neanderthal Man (人). Robinson Crusoe (r-) is looking for snacks in the encampment's kitchen (-en2) when he suddenly spots Neanderthal Man (人). Neanderthal Man offers him a banana (丿), but Robinson Crusoe doesn't trust the present and pokes it with a finger (㇏).

Comments

We see two persons in the comic (instead of only one as in most of the comics so far) because we chose a person as mnemonic symbol for 人: Neanderthal Man.

Matthias, over 1 year ago (edited over 1 year ago)

人 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).
Right-falling stroke

Mnemonic symbol: this one looks like a finger.

Napoleon (n) is giving you the finger (㇏) in the ashram's bathroom (a4).

Characters with 人 as component

(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
surname Gu

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: popcorn.

= + + : Gitta Giraffe conducts an experiment in the space station. She shows Neanderthal Man three things: a mandarin, popcorn, and an eight-ball, and records how much he likes to eat each of these. Neanderthal Man thinks that the eight ball is a little crunchy.
valley

= + + : Gitta Giraffe conducts an experiment in the space station. She shows Neanderthal Man three things: a mandarin, popcorn, and an eight-ball, and records how much he likes to eat each of these. Neanderthal Man thinks that the eight ball is a little crunchy.

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: popcorn.
grain / corn

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: popcorn.

= + + : Gitta Giraffe conducts an experiment in the space station. She shows Neanderthal Man three things: a mandarin, popcorn, and an eight-ball, and records how much he likes to eat each of these. Neanderthal Man thinks that the eight ball is a little crunchy.
variant of 眾|众[zhong4]

= + : Neanderthal Man and Julian Giant Squid are helplessly watching engine's bathroom being flooded by a crowd of rubber chicken.
crowd; multitude / many; numerous
abbr. for 眾議院|众议院[Zhong4 yi4 yuan4], House of Representatives

= + : Neanderthal Man and Julian Giant Squid are helplessly watching engine's bathroom being flooded by a crowd of rubber chicken.
many / numerous / crowd / multitude

= + : Neanderthal Man and Julian Giant Squid are helplessly watching engine's bathroom being flooded by a crowd of rubber chicken.
cluster / collection / collection of books / thicket

= + : Kitty Cat (cu) lost her book collection (丛) in the underbrush (丛) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2). The underbrush consists of the legs of rubber chicken (从) and Kitty Cat has a hard time searching through the chicken. She is using a flute (一) as a bushwhacker to aid in her search.
prisoner

= + : In the 18th century Neanderthal men (人) were kept like prisoners (囚) in plastic enclosures (囗) in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2).
cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a crab. In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), the Neanderthal man (人) and Beelzebub (b) are fighting a crab with staplers (⺆), but because the Neanderthal man (人) can't handle the stapler he accidentally staples himself in the forehead.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= + : Neanderthal man (人) accidentally pierced his foot with a pennant (⺊). Now he'll have to get an injection against tetanus. This character will thus be represented by a syringe.

Words with 人

living person
legal person / corporation / see also 自然人[zi4 ran2 ren2]
vagrant / unemployed person / rōnin (wandering masterless samurai)
Frenchman / French person
to treat the disease to save the patient / to criticize a person in order to help him
foreigner / Westerner
clay figurine
(coll.) skinny fat person (person who is MONW: metabolically obese normal weight)
Rockman or Mega Man (video game series)
(law) legal representative of a corporation (e.g. chairman of the board of a company, principal of a school etc)
Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan
lit. such a fool as to die from holding in one's pee (idiom) / fig. unable to solve a problem due to the inflexibility of one's thinking
transient population / floating population

Sentences with 人

lái
rén
a
 
 
kuài
bǎ
nà
qi̅
qia̅n
èr
bǎi
ji̅n
de
fa̅ng
tia̅n
jǐ