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.

貝 character breakdown

eye / (literary) to look; to regard / eye (of a net); mesh / mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4]) / item; section / list; catalogue / (taxonomy) order / name; title

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the Eye of Providence (目).

Malte Monkey (mu-) is unpacking an enclosure (囗) full of capacitors (二). He's afraid that the Eye of Providence (目) will see him, so he does it secretly in the space station's bathroom (-Ø4).
eight; 8

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: an eight-ball.

Beelzebub (b-) wants to find new ways to lure people into playing pool billiard. To this end he is meditating on top of an eight-ball (八) in front of the Ashram (a1). He uses a finger (㇏) and a banana (丿) as incense to create the right atmosphere.

Characters with 貝 as component

money / wealth / riches / property / valuables

= + : The King of Chu found a big money bag in the airplane's kitchen, but he knows that there is no free lunch. Carefully, he scans the content of the bag with his X-ray power vision, and inside the bag, he finds a crab waiting to strike on its prey.
to congratulate

= + : After Hamlet (h) won his final duel he visited the elevator's bathroom (e4), where the crab (贝) was cheering for him waving with pompoms (加) and congratulating (贺) him on his victory.
surname He

= + : After Hamlet (h) won his final duel he visited the elevator's bathroom (e4), where the crab (贝) was cheering for him waving with pompoms (加) and congratulating (贺) him on his victory.
surname Gong

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) is offering a tribute (贡) to her god in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). The tribute is a crab (贝) at the high tip of a steel beam (工) which has been rammed into the ground.
to confer / to bestow / to grant / Taiwan pr. [si4]

= + : The King of Chu (c) bestows (赐) a very easy puzzle (易) to the crab (贝) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
chaste

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a girdle of chastity. James II of England (zh) wants to get rid of his girdle of chastity (贞). In front of the encampment ((e)n1) he asks the crab (贝) to destroy the girdle, but the crab waves with a pennant (⺊) instead to alarm the royal guard.
to give as a present / to repel / to bestow an honorary title after death (old)

= + : In engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) Zorro (z) is giving a firefly (曾) to the crab (贝) as a present (赠), and the crab promptly eats the firefly.
to stick / to paste / to post (e.g. on a blog) / to keep close to / to fit snugly / to subsidize / allowance (e.g. money for food or housing) / sticker / classifier for sticking plaster: strip

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) wants to start a revolution and so she is pasting (贴) posters everywhere around the elevator. In front of it (e1) she is posting a poster with a crab (贝) holding a yellow umbrella (占), subversively telling the local crab population that they should rise up against their oppression.
to buy / to purchase

= + : The crab (贝) is buying (购) Guy Fawkes' (g) cartoons (勾) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4).
to deal in / to buy and sell / to trade in / to retail / to peddle

= + : Frankenstein's Monster (f) is trading (贩) crabs (贝) in the anthill's bathroom (an4), but there is a protester (反) loudly protesting against his animal abuse.
goods / money / commodity / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Helga Horse (hu) is using a transformer (化) to roast crabs (贝) in the observatory's bathroom (o4). Later she wants to sell the roasted crabs (货) as commodity (货) for money (货).
infant / baby

= + : Maud Younger (y) and Bessie Coleman (女) are taking care of their two baby (婴) crabs (贝) by watching them playing in front of the engine ((e)ng1).
to bestow (a reward) / to give (to an inferior) / to hand down / a reward (bestowed by a superior) / to appreciate (beauty)

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) got pinched by a crab (贝) inside of the anglepod (ang3) before it run away. A Buddhist monk (尚) finds the crab and gives it to Sherlock, who in turn gives the brave monk a reward (赏) for his efforts. The monk appreciates (赏) the reward very much.
commerce / trade

= + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) is negotiating with a rabbit (卯) and a crab (贝) at a world trade summit (贸) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4).
to patronize / to support / to praise / (Internet slang) to like (an online post on Facebook etc)

= + : The two FLOTUS (兟) visit Zorro (z) in the anthill's bathroom (an4) and as they see that he lost his rapier and has to fight with a crab (贝) as a weapon instead, they decide instantaneously to become his patrons (赞) and to pay him $1 for each defeated villain.
to beat / to win / to profit

= 𣎆 + : In the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) Maud Younger (y), a shorthair cat (𣎆) and a crab (贝) are settling for who has to pay the entrance fee. They decide to play a game of paper scissors rock but since the crab can only do scissors it looses and the others win (赢).
bright

= + + : Brunhilde (bi) receives the crab (贝) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and tells the crab how honored (贲) she is with its visit. She lets the crab sit down on a soft sheet of artificial lawn (艹) and makes a nice and bright (贲) fire. The crab thinks that it is nice to have such a bright place, but it doesn't know that the Brunhilde is going to crush it with a cross (十) and grill it on the fire.
surname Ben
energetic
thief / traitor / wily / deceitful / evil / extremely

= + : Zorro (z) is very afraid that thieves (贼) will steal his crab (贝), so he stores it in a firearm locker (戎) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2).

Words with 貝

Halle Berry (1966-), US actress
conpoy / dried scallop
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 馬克·吐溫|马克·吐温[Ma3 ke4 · Tu3 wen1]
Habel, Haber or Hubbell (name) / Harbel (town in Liberia)
Jürgen Habermas (1929-), German social philosopher
tempeh (loanword)
see 天貝|天贝[tian1 bei4]
kapok (Ceiba pentandra)
Hulunbuir prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia
Hulunbuir prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia

Sentences with 貝

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