precious thing / treasure / culinary delicacy / rare / valuable / to value highly

= + : Martin Luther King (王) tells James II of England (zh) that him wearing a big white Afro (㐱) is cultural appropriation and that he should get rid of it in front of the encampment ((e)n1), but James II of England cries out that his Afro is a precious thing (珍) to him, a real treasure (珍), and begs Martin Luther King to allow him to keep it.
variant of 珍[zhen1]

珍 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 鬒: thick hair; bushy black hair

= + : Mnemonic symbol: an Afro hairdo.

James II of England (zh) sees that Neanderthal Man (人) got a huge Afro (㐱) and know he wants one himself. In the encampment's living room ((e)n3) Neanderthal Man helps him to make his hair thicker using hair from a fake Santa Claus beard (彡) matching his natural hair color, eventually forming his hair and his extensions into a huge gray Afro.

Characters with 珍 as component

珍 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 珍

pocket-sized / pocket (book etc)
little person / midget / dwarf
pocket book / paperback
He Zizhen (1910-1984), Mao Zedong's third wife
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize laureate
chicken gizzard (cuisine)
Gong Zizhen (1792-1841), Chinese man of letters, calligrapher and poet

Sentences with 珍

liú
xià
lái
de
yi̅
ge̅n
dìng
hǎi
shén
zhe̅n