Mnemonic comic for 元
Translation
Mnemonic
Sun Wu Kong (儿) offers Yu the Great (yu) a coin (元) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). As Yu the Great takes it, he's literally shocked: Sun Wu Kong hooked up a capacitor (二) to it to play a bad joke on him, and he's laughing his ass off.
All translations for 元
surname Yuan / the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / first / original / primary / fundamental / constituent / part / era (of a reign) / meta- (prefix) / (math.) argument / variable / (Tw) (geology) eon
Comments
元 character breakdown
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
two / 2 / (Beijing dialect) stupid
variant of 人[ren2] / "person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 10), occurring in 兒, 兀, 兄 etc
cut off the feet / rising to a height / towering / bald
non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final