Mnemonic comic for

Translation

lǐ = li + Ø3: texture / grain (of wood) / inner essence / intrinsic order / reason / logic / truth / science / natural science (esp. physics) / to manage / to pay attention to / to run (affairs) / to handle / to put in order / to tidy up

Mnemonic

Li Qingzhao (li) and Martin Luther King (王) have the mission to find out the intrinsic order (理) and inner essence (理) of sunflowers (里) in the space station (Ø3). They grow a few sunflowers and care for them very meticulously, talking to them and everything.

理 character breakdown

king or monarch / best or strongest of its type / grand / great

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Martin Luther King. Willy Walrus (wu) is stuck in a heap of dirt (土) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). Martin Luther King (王) helps him by holding out a flute (一).
to rule / to reign over
variant of 裡|里[li3]
lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a sunflower. The 田 part looks like the blossom and 土 looks like the stem and leaves. Li Qingzhao (li) wants to put up a field (田) inside (里) the space station's living room (Ø3). First she puts some earth (土) here and there, and then she plants lots of sunflowers (里).
li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels

Characters with 理 as component

理 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 理

to be impervious to reason (idiom) / unreasonable
to refuse to acknowledge / to pay no attention to / to take no notice of / to ignore
not to pay attention to / to leave sth as it is / to ignore
variant of 不答理[bu4 da1 li3]
not understanding things (idiom); devoid of sense
to completely ignore (idiom) / to pay no attention to / not to be in the least concerned about
(Pauli) exclusion principle (physics)
to pay no heed to
mean value theorem (in calculus)
China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) / abbr. to 證監會|证监会[Zheng4 jian1 hui4]
to ignore / to brush off / to dismiss / to pay no attention to
without giving due consideration / to ignore / to overlook

Sentences with 理

mán
héng
wú
lǐ
 
 
dà
nào
lóng
go̅ng