Mnemonic comic for

Translation

yú = yu + Ø2: (of time or place) in; at; on / (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for / (indicating a source) from; out of / (used in comparison) than / (used in the passive voice) by

Mnemonic

Mnemonic symbol: prepositions (in, at, on, to, ...) are what glue the sentence together. Honey is as sticky as glue, so I'll represent 于 by a honey jar. Yu the Great (于) was assigned to repair the electronics of the space station's kitchen (Ø2), but instead he was snacking honey from a honey jar (于). Unfortunately his capacitor (二) got stuck in the honey and now he has to use a crowbar (亅) to lever it out.

All translations for 于

to go / to take / sentence-final interrogative particle / variant of 於|于[yu2]
(of time or place) in; at; on / (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for / (indicating a source) from; out of / (used in comparison) than / (used in the passive voice) by

= + : Mnemonic symbol: prepositions (in, at, on, to, ...) are what glue the sentence together. Honey is as sticky as glue, so I'll represent 于 by a honey jar.

Yu the Great (于) was assigned to repair the electronics of the space station's kitchen (Ø2), but instead he was snacking honey from a honey jar (于). Unfortunately his capacitor (二) got stuck in the honey and now he has to use a crowbar (亅) to lever it out.

Comments

Shoutout to https://openclipart.org/artist/PrinterKiller for uploading this honey jar to https://openclipart.org/detail/162139/honey-jar

Matthias, 10 months ago

于 character breakdown

"vertical stroke with hook" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 6) / see also 豎鉤|竖钩[shu4 gou1]

Mnemonic symbol: 亅 looks like a crowbar. Zeus (ju) is bored and presses all the buttons next to the elevator kitchen's (e2) door with his crowbar (亅).
two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid

= : Mnemonic symbol: a capacitor, because the two strokes remind me of the symbol in electrical drawings. Albert Einstein (Ø) is experimenting with a capacitor (二) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He finds that it's uncomfortable to discharge a capacitor using two flutes (一).

Characters with 于 as component

variant of 籲|吁[yu4]
sh / hush
to implore

= + : Yu the Great (yu) wants to stick a mandarin (口) into a honey jar (于) and eat it, but in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) the mandarin is imploring (吁) him to not do it.
room / universe

= + : Yu the Great (yu) just earned her PhD in the space station (Ø3) and is proudly putting on her graduation cap (宀). She was measuring cosmic (宇) rays by investigating the traces they left in a honey jar (于) and is demonstrating her experiment for the camera.
taro / Colocasia antiquorum / Colocasia esculenta
(dialect) country fair / country market
dike
variant of 污 / dirty / filthy / foul / corrupt / to smear / to defile / dirt / filth
basin / wide-mouthed jar or pot
literal-minded / pedantic / doctrinaire / longwinded / circuitous
surname Xu

Words with 于

pertaining to / concerning / with regard to / about / a matter of
regarding; as far as (sth) is concerned; with regard to
in view of / seeing that / considering / whereas
unlikely to go so far as to; not as bad as
to be limited to / to be confined to
greater than / to exceed
to be advantageous to; to be beneficial for
greater than; bigger than; more than
caught in (a bad situation) / to fall into (trap etc)
see 防患未然[fang2 huan4 wei4 ran2]
heavier than Mt Tai (idiom); fig. extremely serious matter
lit. the color blue is made out of indigo but is more vivid than indigo (idiom) / fig. the student surpasses the master
harder than climbing to heaven (idiom)
to be well aware; to understand clearly
see 千里之堤,潰於蟻穴|千里之堤,溃于蚁穴[qian1 li3 zhi1 di1 , kui4 yu2 yi3 xue2]
lit. an ant hole may cause the collapse of a great dike (idiom) / fig. huge damage may result from a moment's negligence
(of people) difficult to approach / inaccessible
to be paralyzed / at a standstill
to be adept in / to excel at

Sentences with 于

yú
nǐ
men
zhè
hua̅
guǒ
sha̅n
kě
shì
dà
bù
xia̅ng
tóng
a