mountain pass / to close; to shut; to turn off / to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc) / to concern; to involve

= + : A mean crocodile (丷) is chasing Gitta Giraffe (gu) in front of the anthill (an1). It almost caught up, when an angel (天) appears and pushes its off button (mnemonic symbol for 关) to save Gitta Giraffe.

关 character breakdown

"eight" component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 八[ba1]

Mnemonic symbol: a crocodile with mean eyes. Beelzebub (b) is fighting with eight crocodiles (丷) in front of the ashram (a1).
one of the characters used in kwukyel, an ancient Korean writing system
day / sky / heaven

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) programmed a robot (大) to play a flute duet together with her in front of the anthill (an1). As they play their flutes (一) an angel (天) hears their heavenly tune and descends from heaven to listen to them.

Characters with 关 as component

old variant of 笑[xiao4]

= + : This character just looks like a certain laughing cat: ⺮ are the eyes and 夭 looks like the snout.

= + : In the aorta's bathroom, Marie Curie tells Snow White a story how she once hoaxed the whole university into believing that her simple bamboo stick can be used as fuel assembly in a nuclear reactor. She can't stop laughing while she tells her story.
vassal state of Zhou in Shandong / Teng county in Shandong / surname Teng
variant of 關|关[guan1]
I / we (imperial use) / subtle
old variant of 養|养[yang3]
old variant of 餋[juan4]
raised path between fields
variant of 塍[cheng2]
have as remainder / trad. variant of 剩[sheng4]
pupil
to offer sacrifices

Words with 关

Kantō earthquake of 1923, magnitude 8.2, that killed 200,000 people in the Tokyo area
oden, Japanese dish made with boiled eggs, processed fish cakes, daikon radish, tofu etc in a kelp-based broth
Japanese Kwantung army (or Kantō army), notorious for numerous atrocities in China during WWII
blocked or painful urination, constipation and vomiting (Chinese medicine)
bonded warehouse
to relate (to) / to concern / to involve / connection / relationship
Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
to inform / to notify
articular capsule (of joint such as knee in anatomy)
articular cavity / joint cavity
articular facet (anatomy) / surface in joint
to close firmly / to fasten securely / to make fast / to lock
Guan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fearsome fighter famous for virtue and loyalty / posthumously worshipped and identified with the guardian Bodhisattva Sangharama
official document sent to an agency (or an official) of equal rank (in imperial times)

Sentences with 关

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