叶

xié = xi + e2

to be in harmony

yè = y + e4

leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats / a surname

叶 = 十 + 口 : 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.

叶 = 十 + 口 : You could see the cross 十 as the leaves 叶 of the mandarin 口.

叶 character breakdown

叶
- 十
  - 一
  - 丨
- 口

shí = sh + Ø2

ten / 10

十 = 一 + 丨 : 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).

kǒu = k + ou3

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

branch and leaf

dead leaf / withered leaf

Phrynium capitatum

lancet (surgeon's knife)

see 柳眉[liu3 mei2]

deep roots and vigorous foliage (idiom) / (fig.) well established and growing strongly

eucalyptus oil

Charles Messier (1730-1817), French astronomer who catalogued nebulas and galaxies

Messier catalog of nebulae and clusters (1784)

Sanskrit on Talipot palm leaves (idiom); Buddhist scripture

leaf (usually bamboo or reed leaf) used to wrap 粽子[zong4 zi5] sticky rice dumplings

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see 樹高千丈，葉落歸根|树高千丈，叶落归根[shu4 gao1 qian1 zhang4 , ye4 luo4 gui1 gen1]

,

fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home

(bird species of China) orange-bellied leafbird (Chloropsis hardwickii)

omasum / beef tripe

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Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.

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Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.

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Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.

occipital lobe

Agent Orange (herbicide)

Sentences with 叶

叶 currently does not appear in any sentence.