Mnemonic comic for

Translation

kě = k + e3: can / may / able to / to approve / to permit / to suit / (particle used for emphasis) certainly / very

Mnemonic

Alternative mnemonic symbol: kebab, from the pronunciation "ke". Karl Marx (k) is preparing a kebab (mnemonic symbol for 可) in the elevator's living room (e3). He also skewers mandarins (口) on the long steel nails (丁) and will only allow (可) his guests to eat the rest of the kebab if they eat their mandarins first.

All translations for 可

can / may / able to / to approve / to permit / to suit / (particle used for emphasis) certainly / very

= + : Karl Marx (k) is challenging his abilities (可) in the elevator's living room (e3). He tries to force a nail (丁) into a mandarin (口), just by using his head. On top of that he tries to do so one thousand times, in order to create a bed of nails (mnemonic symbol for 可).

= + : Alternative mnemonic symbol: kebab, from the pronunciation "ke". Karl Marx (k) is preparing a kebab (mnemonic symbol for 可) in the elevator's living room (e3). He also skewers mandarins (口) on the long steel nails (丁) and will only allow (可) his guests to eat the rest of the kebab if they eat their mandarins first.
used in 可汗[ke4 han2]

Comments

I have NO idea why the AI added a gamer girl. This was the prompt: "Create an image of a high quality modern digital art comic panel with square aspect ratio. Use cell shading and advanced drawing techniques. All referenced characters are cosplayers. Create modern cartoon versions of the mentioned characters. A guest is buying a kebap with lots of mandarins from Karl Marx. Karl Marx has a food truck in the elevator's living room. He skewers oranges on a huge nail to create a kebap with oranges. The room is made out of stainless steel and features a steel sofa and steel TV. Two large sliding elevator doors are shown in the background."

Matthias, about 8 hours ago

Aaahh, okay, now I see it. Sometimes the AI doesn't want to create Pocahontas or Pinocchio or so, because there are popular copyrighted interpretations of these characters, so I have a system prompt (basically the first half of the prompt) telling ChatGPT that everyone is a "cosplayer", so it doesn't need to be afraid of copyright infringement.

Matthias, about 8 hours ago

可 character breakdown

male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1] / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl

= + : Mnemonic symobl: a nail. 一 is the head of the nail and 亅 is the shaft. The point of the nail is already a bit bent.

Dorothy Gale (di) balances a flute (一) on a crowbar (亅) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). For this trick, she wins the fourth (丁) place in an artists competition and gets a quarter (丁) of a pizza as prize. Unfortunately, there is a big nail (mnemonic symbol for 丁) on the pizza slice.
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

Characters with 可 as component

elder brother

= : Did you know that Godzilla (哥斯拉 ge1 si1 la1, mnemonic symbol for 哥) was the elder brother (哥) of Guy Fawkes (g)? They used to share kebabs (可) regularly sitting in front of the elevator (e1).
expel breath / my goodness

= + : Hamlet (h) started to train to sit on a bed of nails (可) in front of the elevator (e1). After every session he treats his skin with a mandarin (口) and expels (呵) "oh my goodness!" (呵)
variant of 啊[a1]
odd (number)
strange / odd / weird / wonderful / surprisingly / unusually

= + : Mnemonic symbol: cappuccino (卡布奇诺)

The Queen of Hearts (qi) craves a cappuccino (奇) just inside the entrance of the space station (Ø2), and the robot (大) has one in his robot hands. He will give it to the Queen of Hearts under one weird (奇) condition: she shall prove that she's worth to receive the cappuccino by sitting on a bed of nails (可). The Queen agrees and pretends to be in much vain, but really she's just pretending since there is no gravity in the space station.
surname He
what / how / why / which / carry

= + : Mnemonic symbol (from "carry"): baby sling

= + : In the elevator's kitchen, Rosa Luxemburg picks up the crying baby Hamlet from his bed of nails, puts him in his baby sling and tries to calm him down.
abbr. for Afghanistan 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4]
prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / used in transliteration / also pr. [a4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 阿姨 (a1yi2), "auntie"

= + : Auntie, Albert Einstein and the Pope are having a contest in front of the ashram: Who can sit longer on a bed of nails? The Pope secretly calls God's power and just hovers a little over the bed of nails. Albert Einstein calculates exactly how he has to place his body to not excert too much force on any body part. Auntie just sits down on the bed of nails, and wins in the end.
flatter
(literary) to flatter; to curry favor with

Words with 可

cannot / should not / must not
hidden / kept secret / not to be divulged
lit. mustn't speak of two things on the same day (idiom); not to be mentioned in the same breath / incomparable
to consider oneself unexcelled in the world / to be insufferably arrogant
inestimable / incalculable / beyond measure
inalienable / unalienable / inseparable / indivisible
indescribable / beyond description
inexpressible (idiom) / beyond description
not differentiable (function in calculus)
indispensable; essential
once it gets started there's no stopping it
to succeed at the first try (idiom) / easy as pie / one can do it at once
inviolable / inviolability

Sentences with 可

dàn
bù
zhi̅
dà
wáng
 
 
hǎi
lǐ
kě
néng
qù
de