character / nature / quality / plain / to pawn / pledge / hostage / to question / Taiwan pr. [zhi2]

= + + : James II of England (zh) captured a crab (贝) and keeps it as a hostage (质) In the space station's bathroom (Ø4). James II of England wants to find out more about the nature (质) of the banana tree (⺁), so all the crab gets to eat is the banana trees. Secretly the crab set up a small cross (十) to which it prays everyday for its release.

質 character breakdown

catty / (PRC) weight equal to 500 g / (Tw) weight equal to 600 g / (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 g

= + : Mnemonic symbol: barbells with 500g on each side.

Joan of Arc (ji) is lifting barbells (斤) in front of the encampment ((e)n1). Before each set she eats all the bananas from a banana tree (⺁) for the magnesium, and after each set she eats a T-bone steak (丅) for the protein.
cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a crab. In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), the Neanderthal man (人) and Beelzebub (b) are fighting a crab with staplers (⺆), but because the Neanderthal man (人) can't handle the stapler he accidentally staples himself in the forehead.

Characters with 質 as component

(executioner's) block
enraged / resentful / to hate / to desist
to stumble

Words with 質

nervous / on edge / excitable / neurotic
inner quality / basic essence
mineral, esp. dietary mineral
paper / hard copy / printed (as opposed to electronically displayed)
quality of meat / succulent (botany)
so uneducated! / so ignorant!
all-round education (contrasted with 應試教育|应试教育[ying4 shi4 jiao4 yu4], exam-oriented education)
lit. the heart of a sheep in the skin of a tiger (idiom) / fig. impressive in appearance but lacking in substance / braggart
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
succulent root (botany)
sial rock (containing silicon and aluminium, so comparatively light, making continental plates)
glial cell (provide support to neuron) / neuroglia
cancellous bone / trabecular bone / spongy bone
glucocorticosteroid (corticosteroid hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex)

Sentences with 質

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