心

heart / mind / intention / center / core / CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]

心 = 乚 + 丶 : Marie Curie (xi) uses a shovel (乚) to dig a hole in front of the encampment ((e)n1). She wants to bury her heart (心). To the side are three petal leaves (丶), with which she wants to cover it afterwards.

心 character breakdown

心
- 丶
- 乚

丶

zhǔ = zhu + Ø3

"dot" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 3) / see also 點|点[dian3]

This character shall be represented by a petal (丶) when appearing in other characters.

Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is napping in the space station's living room (Ø3) and hugging a petal (丶).

乚

yà = y + a4

component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 毫[hao2] / archaic variant of 乙[yi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a shovel (乚).

Remember it by imagining Maud Younger (y) digging her own grave with a shovel in the ashram's bathroom (a4).

Characters with 心 as component

惑

huò = hu + o4

to confuse / to be puzzled

惑 = 心 + 或 : Oswaldo Farrés (或) wants to give his heart (心) to Helga Horse (hu) in the observatory's bathroom (o4), but Helga is very confused (惑): she doesn't know at all what to do with it.

忌

jì = ji + Ø4

to be jealous of / fear / dread / scruple / to avoid or abstain from / to quit / to give up sth

忌 = 己 + 心 : Joan of Arc (ji) wants to just give up (忌), so in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) she pulls out her heart (心) using a butcher's hook (己).

芯

xi̅n = xi + (e)n1

lamp pith / wick

芯

xìn = xi + (e)n4

core

惹

rě = r + e3

to provoke / to irritate / to vex / to stir up / to anger / to attract (troubles) / to cause (problems)

惹 = 心 + 若 : A wooden chicken (若) is picking at Robinson Crusoe's (r) heart (心) in the elevator (e3) and its making him furious (惹).

闷

悶

me̅n = m + (e)n1

stuffy / shut indoors / to smother / to cover tightly

闷

悶

mèn = m + (e)n4

bored / depressed / melancholy / sealed / airtight / tightly closed

闷 = 心 + 门 : Mahatma Gandhi (m) lost his heart (心) when he accidentally dropped it through a trap door (门) in the floor of the encampment ((e)n4). As soon as the heart fell through, the door closed very tightly (闷) which makes Mahatma Gandhi quite depressed (闷).

念

唸

niàn = ni + an4

variant of 念[nian4], to read aloud

念 = 今 + 心 : Mnemonic symbol: a lectern to read something aloud.

念

niàn = ni + an4

to read / to study (a subject) / to attend (a school) / to read aloud / to give (sb) a tongue-lashing (CL:頓|顿[dun4]) / to miss (sb) / idea / remembrance / twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿[nian4])

念 = 今 + 心 : Mnemonic symbol: a lectern to read something aloud.

恳

懇

kěn = k + (e)n3

earnest

恳 = 心 + 艮 : Karl Marx (k) is taking his hobby of collecting chewing gums (艮) in the encampment ((e)n3) very sincere (恳). There are chewing gums all around the place! It is as if chewing gums were even stuck to Karl's heart (心).

愿

yuàn = yu + an4

honest / prudent / variant of 願|愿[yuan4]

愿 = 原 + 心 : Yu the Great finds a live nuclear bomb in the anthill's bathroom and instantly occupies it. She paints hearts everywhere and sincerely hopes that no a-bomb will ever be used.

愿

願

yuàn = yu + an4

to hope / to wish / to desire / hoped-for / ready / willing

愿 = 原 + 心 : Yu the Great finds a live nuclear bomb in the anthill's bathroom and instantly occupies it. She paints hearts everywhere and sincerely hopes that no a-bomb will ever be used.

感

gǎn = g + an3

to feel / to move / to touch / to affect / feeling / emotion / (suffix) sense of ~

感 = 咸 + 心 : Mnemonic symbol: one or multiple feelers!

感 = 咸 + 心 : Inside of the anthill, Guy Fawkes wants to drink a tequila. He already found the salt, but now he's looking for a lemon with his feelers. There's a very mysterious object on the table: it feels like a lemon, but the shape is somewhat wrong. What Guy Fawkes is inspecting with his feelers is a heart.