筒

tube / cylinder / to encase in sth cylindrical (such as hands in sleeves etc)

筒 = ⺮ + 同 : Tommy Turtle (tu) managed to build a twin (同) cylinder (筒) engine out of bamboo sticks (⺮) inside of the engine ((e)ng3).

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筒

筩

tǒng = tu + (e)ng3

variant of 筒[tong3]

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Add a new mnemonic for 筒 = 竹 + 同

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筒 = ⺮ + 同 : Tommy Turtle (tu) managed to build a twin (同) cylinder (筒) engine out of bamboo sticks (⺮) inside of the engine ((e)ng3).

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筒 character breakdown

筒
- ⺮
- 同
  - 冂
    - 丨
    - ㇆
      - 一
      - 亅
  - 𠮛
    - 一
    - 口
- 竹
  - 丨
  - 亅
  - 亇
    - 亅
    - 人
      - 丿
      - ㇏
    - ⺈
  - 𠂉
    - 一
    - 丿

⺮

zhú = zhu + Ø2

"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)

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Mnemonic symbol: a bamboo stick.

Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is cooking bamboo shoots in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He's cooking them in a large pot and stirs them with a bamboo stick (⺮).

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同

tóng = tu + (e)ng2

like / same / similar / together / alike / with

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同 = 冂 + 𠮛 : Tommy Turtle (tu) is stapling (冂) a magical scroll (𠮛) to the wall of the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2). On it he wrote that he's looking for two twins (mnemonic symbol for 同).

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竹

zhú = zhu + Ø2

bamboo / CL:棵[ke1],支[zhi1],根[gen1] / Kangxi radical 118

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Add a new mnemonic for 竹 =  + 丨 + 亅

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竹 = 𠂉 + 丨 + 亅 : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is weaving a bamboo basket (竹) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He is using a key (𠂉), a dinosaur bone (丨) and a crowbar (亅) as basis structure and connects the three stays by weaving soft bamboo (竹) around them.

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