织

to weave / to knit

织 = 只 + 纟 : James II of England (zh) founded the international knitting (织) organization (织) in front of the space station (Ø1). Together with him a silk worm (纟) and a cuttlefish (只) are knitting (织) the world's longest scarf.

织 character breakdown

织
- 只
  - 八
    - 丿
    - ㇏
  - 口
- 纟

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

纟

糹

si̅ = s + Ø1

"silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅|红[hong2], 綠|绿[lü4], 累[lei4] etc / also pr. [mi4]