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

to be in (some state, position, or condition)
as for / as to / to go so far as to
too much / excessively
constrained / restricted / forced to / under pressure to do sth
to tend towards
to suffer from (a disadvantage)
Yuan Yuling (-1674) Qing writer, author of 西樓記|西楼记[Xi1 lou2 Ji4]
to become reconciled / to bury the hatchet
to get more criticism than praise
teaching by example beats explaining in words (idiom) / action speaks louder than words
light as a goose feather (idiom); trifling / unimportant
to vent one's anger on an innocent party (idiom)
to be infatuated with
to attain a state of perfect governance (idiom)
tyrannical government is fiercer than a tiger (idiom)
blood is thicker than water / fig. family ties are closer than social relations

Sentences with 于

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