望
full moon / to hope / to expect / to visit / to gaze (into the distance) / to look towards / towards
望
=
亡
+
月
+
王
:
In anglepod's bathroom, Willy Walrus and Martin Luther King step up against each other in a gazing contest. They both lean on a tombstone and gaze into the distant like pros. Because the moon has been gazed upon so much and therefore him being most experienced he volunteered to be the judge.
15th day of month (lunar calendar) / old variant of 望[wang4]
望
=
亡
+
月
+
王
:
In anglepod's bathroom, Willy Walrus and Martin Luther King step up against each other in a gazing contest. They both lean on a tombstone and gaze into the distant like pros. Because the moon has been gazed upon so much and therefore him being most experienced he volunteered to be the judge.
望 character breakdown
to die / to lose / to be gone / to flee / deceased
old variant of 亡[wang2]
亾
=
乚
+
人
:
My mnemonic for 亡 is a tombstone, so this ancient variant gets to be a sarcophagus.
Willy Walrus (w) has to bury the Neanderthal man (人) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). The Neanderthal man (人) is lying in a half open sarcophagus (亾) next to Willy, and Willy uses a shovel (乚) to dig the grave.
Willy Walrus (w) has to bury the Neanderthal man (人) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). The Neanderthal man (人) is lying in a half open sarcophagus (亾) next to Willy, and Willy uses a shovel (乚) to dig the grave.
Characters with 望 as component
望
is not used as a component in another character.
Words with 望
lit. to see only the other rider's dust and have no hope of catching up (idiom) / to be far inferior
lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom); fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life / to have great hopes for one's offspring / to give one's child the best education as a career investment
lit. to quench one's thirst by thinking of plums (idiom) / fig. to console oneself with illusions
Wangan township in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县[Peng2 hu2 xian4] (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan