two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid

= : Mnemonic symbol: a capacitor, because the two strokes remind me of the symbol in electrical drawings. Albert Einstein (Ø) is experimenting with a capacitor (二) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He finds that it's uncomfortable to discharge a capacitor using two flutes (一).

二 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.

Characters with 二 as component

even / well-distributed / uniform / to distribute evenly / to share

= + : Yu the Great (yu) and the elephant (勹) joined the palace guard and are guarding the entrance to the encampment ((e)n2), but there was no uniform (匀) available that fitted the elephant. Yu the Great was nice enough to make a uniform form him. She even made him a large beret (亠). Now they both look very uniform (匀).
to print / to mark / to engrave / a seal / a print / a stamp / a mark / a trace / image

= + : Maud Younger (y) and the baby seal (卩) are working on a campaign in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4). They heard that on banana farms, banana trees (⺁) are tortured with electric shocks from capacitors (二) to stimulate them to grow bananas faster. They want to protest against this practice and created a blow up banana tree with a fake capacitor attached. In the encampment's bathroom they use a photocopier to print (印) lots of flyers with this motive and a text to motivate the people to rise up.
surname Yin / abbr. for 印度[Yin4 du4]

= + : Maud Younger (y) and the baby seal (卩) are working on a campaign in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4). They heard that on banana farms, banana trees (⺁) are tortured with electric shocks from capacitors (二) to stimulate them to grow bananas faster. They want to protest against this practice and created a blow up banana tree with a fake capacitor attached. In the encampment's bathroom they use a photocopier to print (印) lots of flyers with this motive and a text to motivate the people to rise up.
component in Chinese characters, mirror image of 夂[zhi3]

= + : Looks like an antenna. Karl Koala set up his amateur radio transmitter in the ashram's bathroom. To increase the range, he put up a big cross and a sickle and put his antenna on top of this construction.
(arch. introductory particle) / then / and then

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a broad decorator's brush.

Yu the Great (yu) is painting in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). First she paints backgrounds with a decorator's brush (聿), then applies some details using a crayon (肀), and finally she discharges a capacitor (二) on the canvas for special effects.
to explain / to release / Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2]) / Buddhism

= + + + : Every time Sherlock Holmes (sh) draws a sample from a boxing glove (又) with a sampling tool (釆) In the space station's bathroom (Ø4), he pulls out a small dinosaur bone (丨) and is shocked electrically immediately, since an attached capacitor (二) releases (释) its charge. Yet Sherlock continues to do so since he is determined to explain (释) the nature of the boxing glove.
extending all the way across / running all the way through

= + : Mnemonic symbol: in this character the sun goes from horizon to horizon, and thus I choose to represent it by a contrail.

Guy Fawkes wants to find out where contrails really come from, so he follows one until he arrives at the encampment's bathroom. There he finds that the sun was experimenting with a capacitor. She blew the capacitor up accidentally, resulting in lots of smoke, which then formed this contrail.
old variant of 帽[mao4] / hat / cap

= + : A basecap. Mahatma Gandhi is looking at a map (冂) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4). There is a sign clearly stating that for hygienic reasons the map is not to be touched, but Mahatma Gandhi touches it anyway and gets shocked immediately by an attached capacitor (二). He gets shocked so terribly that his basecap (冃) jumps off of his head.
archaic variant of 貳|贰, banker's anti-fraud numeral two
two (banker's anti-fraud numeral) / to betray

= + + : When St John saw Albert Einstein (Ø) shoot capacitors (二) at a crab (贝) with a bow (弋) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), he handed him his second epistle (贰, 约翰贰书) telling Albert that he feels betrayed (贰).
surname Zhu / abbr. for 天竺[Tian1 zhu2] India (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context) / Buddhism (archaic)
variant of 篤|笃[du3]
his / her / its / their

Words with 二

thoroughly (idiom) / completely / one and all / very clean
one or two; a few / a little; just a bit
gradually / little by little / in the course of time
one divides into two / to be two-sided / there are two sides to everything / to see both sb's good points and shortcomings (idiom)
to make a terrible scene (idiom) / to throw a tantrum
unfamiliar at first, but well accustomed soon enough (idiom)
lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom) / fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us / (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive
lit. either don't do it, or don't rest (idiom) / fig. if you do it at all, you may as well go the whole hog / in for a penny, in for a pound
December 9th Movement (1935), student-led demonstrations demanding that the Chinese government resist Japanese aggression
Shanghai Incident of 28th January 1932, Chinese uprising against Japanese quarters of Shanghai

Sentences with 二

yuán
lái
shì
wu̅
gui̅
 
 
xia̅
mǐ
èr
jiàng