Mnemonic comic for 五
Mnemonic
Mnemonic symbol: a pentagram.
In the space station (Ø3), Willy Walrus (w) chops up a steel beam (工) with a sickle (乛) into five (五) equal parts. He uses the five parts to assemble a steel pentagram (五).
Comments
五 character breakdown
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]
variant of 乙[zhe2]
work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor
king or monarch / best or strongest of its type / grand / great
to rule / to reign over