识

to know / knowledge / Taiwan pr. [shi4]

识 = 只 + 讠 : Sherlock Holmes (sh) is inspecting the new arrival at the entrance of the space station (Ø2). It's a big advertising column (讠) with a cuttlefish (只) on it, to broaden the space station's inhabitant's knowledge (识).

识

識

zhì = zh + Ø4

to record / to write a footnote

识 character breakdown

识
- 只
  - 八
    - 丿
    - ㇏
  - 口
- 讠

只

zhǐ = zh + Ø3

only / merely / just / but

只 = 八 + 口 : Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like something (a head?) on two legs. I'll just represent it by a cuttlefish (只). James II of England (zh) has been in the space station (Ø3) as the only (只) one for too long and went mad. He thinks he's holding a mandarin (口), but he's just about to bite into merely (只) an eight ball (八). On the top of his head is a cuttlefish (只) he mistook for a hat.

只

祇

zhǐ = zh + Ø3

variant of 只[zhi3]

只

秖

zhi̅ = zh + Ø1

grain that has begun to ripen

只

衹

zhǐ = zh + Ø3

variant of 只[zhi3]

讠

訁

yán = y + an2

"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).

只

隻

zhi̅ = zh + Ø1

classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc