"cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14), occurring in 軍|军[jun1], 冠[guan1] etc, known as 禿寶蓋|秃宝盖[tu1 bao3 gai4] or 平寶蓋|平宝盖[ping2 bao3 gai4]

Mnemonic symbol: 冖 shall be represented by a saucepan lid. Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to use the bathroom in the space station (Ø4), but the door is broken! She tries to cover herself with a saucepan lid (冖) instead.

冖 character breakdown

The character 冖 cannot be broken down into individual components.

Characters with 冖 as component

surname Guan
hat / crown / crest / cap

= + + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) is busking in front of the anthill (an1). She has a hat (冠) lying in front of her, but the hat is protected by a cooking top (冖). Many passersby give her the thumbs up (寸) or put some coins (元) into her hat.
to put on a hat / to be first / to dub

= + + : After a long day of work Gitta Giraffe (gu) empties her hat (冠) in the anthill's bathroom (an4), puts the coins (元) in her pocket and puts the hat on (冠). She tosses the cooking top (冖) in a corner and gives herself the thumbs up (寸).
"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character look like a graduation cap (宀).

Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to cook in the anthill's kitchen (an2) but she's afraid of the ants. That's why she builds a bunker: she uses a saucepan lid (冖) as the base, constructs pillars out of petals (丶) and uses a graduation cap (宀) as the roof.
grand / heroic

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: porcupine (豪).

Hamlet (h) recently got a lot of money, so he became a nouveau rich (豪). First he bought a new beret (亠). He then fulfilled himself a wish he had for a long time: standing on a swine (豕) and a porcupine (豪), he is riding out of the aorta's kitchen (ao2) into the world, eating a mandarin (口).
to learn / to study / to imitate / science / -ology

= + + : Xu Xian wants to study scienceology and learn more about daisies. Just inside the elevator's kitchen, he put some daisies into a prize cup and covered them with a cooking top. He wants to study the growth rate of the daisies depending on the pH of the water in the prize cup.
to feel / to find that / thinking / awake / aware

= + + : Lately Zeus has been acting strange when he entered the elevator, so there have been a lot of surveillance cameras put up to observe him. Zeus thinks that they are ugly and decorates them with daisies. He also feels that the cameras are emitting radiation to read his mind, so he put up a cooking lid as hat to protect his brain from the radiation.
a nap / a sleep / CL:場|场[chang2]

= + + : There have been reports of illegal sleepovers in Angkor Wat's bathroom, so Joan of Arc wants to get to the bottom of it. She plans to film the intruders with a surveillance camera, but at the same time she may not be discovered, so she hides under a cooking top which is in turn covered up with daisies. However her attempt at filming the sleepovers fail: as the night comes, she falls asleep herself in her hideout.
surname Chang
always / ever / often / frequently / common / general / constant

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: the centennial light, a light bulb which will shine forever and ever.

= + + : Charlie Chaplin is fighting his way through anglepod's underbrush with a coat hanger. The anglepod has not been visited in a hundred years, and with his coat hanger, Charlie Chaplin has to cut down a lot of daisies. Finally he found what he was looking for: the centennial light, protected from the daisies and the rain by a cooking top.
emperor

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: the great emperor Caesar.

Caesar prepared to sauna in the space station's bathroom, and he has his towel already around his neck when he prepares a new aufguss. Just as he wants to lift the vase, the cooking top on top of it lifts itself as Dorothy Gale looks out, laughing at Caesar.

Words with 冖

冖 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 冖

冖 currently does not appear in any sentence.