why / how / when / what / where

= + : So many questions! That's why I'm gonna represent this with a quiz wheel. Each section of the wheel corresponds to one of the question words.

The beggar from ancient Egypt (匃) is the candidate in a quiz game just inside the elevator's kitchen (e2). His quiz master is Hamlet (h), and the quiz wheel (曷) is spun by the sun (日).

曷 character breakdown

variant of 丐[gai4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a beggar from ancient Egypt. The beggar from ancient Egypt (匃) found work as an elephant (勹) rider. He rides his elephant through the airplane's bathroom (ai4) while the elephant carries a sarcophagus (亾) with his trunk. He doesn't know that Guy Fawkes (g) secretly sneaked into the sarcophagus to hitch a ride.
abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan
sun / day / date, day of the month

= + : Robinson Crusoe (r) is hiding from the sun (日) in an enclosure (囗) full of flutes (一) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
to speak / to say

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a microphone.

Yu the Great (yu) is selling flutes (一) in front of the elevator (e1). He has a whole box (囗) of them, and he's advertising them by using a microphone (曰).

Characters with 曷 as component

to visit (a superior)

= + : Maud Younger (y) plans to visit her superior (谒) to ask for a raise. On an advertising column (讠) in the elevator's bathroom (e4) she reads that she should dress for success, but she doesn't know what to dress, so she turns a quiz wheel (曷) to decide for her.
kudzu (Pueraria lobata) / hemp cloth

= + : Guy Fawkes (g) keeps turning the quiz wheel (曷) in the elevator's kitchen (e2) because he wants to get the hemp cloth (葛) to make a mask out of it, but every time he just wins sheets of artificial lawn (艹).
brown / gray or dark color / coarse hemp cloth / Taiwan pr. [he2]
scorpion
Jie people, a tribe of northern China around the 4th century
ram, esp. gelded / to castrate / deer's skin
variant of 蠍|蝎[xie1]
Buddhist hymn / gatha / Buddhist verse
forceful / martial
stone tablet
buskin / name of a tribe / turban
to desire

Words with 曷

曷 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 曷

曷 currently does not appear in any sentence.