Mnemonic comic for 来
Mnemonic
Lancelot (l) is cooking dinner in the airplane’s kitchen (ai2) when he hears an eerie ticking, and is soon after shocked to see a mean crocodile (丷) with a ticking kitchen timer (未) stuck between its teeth entering! Panicking he leaves the airplane through the window sitting on top of a spinning boomerang (mnemonic symbol for 来), but he didn’t realize that a boomerang always comes back (来).
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来 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
"eight" component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 八[ba1]
one of the characters used in kwukyel, an ancient Korean writing system
not yet / did not / have not / not / 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep / ancient Chinese compass point: 210°
rice / CL:粒[li4] / meter (classifier)