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).

冠 character breakdown

surname Yuan / the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / first / original / primary / fundamental / constituent / part / era (of a reign) / meta- (prefix) / (math.) argument / variable / (Tw) (geology) eon

= + : Sun Wu Kong offers Yu the Great a coin just inside the anthill's kitchen. As Yu the Great takes it, she's literally shocked: Sun Wu Kong hooked up a capacitor to it to play a bad joke on her, and he's laughing his ass off.
"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.
a unit of length / inch / thumb

= + + : Kitty Cat is playing with a petal leaf in the encampment's bathroom. She's keeping it in the air by hitting it with a flute and a crowbar. It's so much fun that she thinks to herself "thumbs up".
Character component without intrinsic meaning

Characters with 冠 as component

meaning unknown ("herb mentioned in old books") / Japanese variant of 蔻[kou4], cardamom or nutmeg

Words with 冠

to seize the crown / fig. to win a championship / to win gold medal
lit. hair stands up in anger and tips off one's hat (idiom) / fig. seething in anger / raise one's hackles
lit. to flick dust off sb's cap (idiom); to celebrate an official appointment / to congratulate and celebrate (promotion, graduation etc)
lit. to put Zhang's hat on Li's head / to attribute sth to the wrong person (idiom) / to confuse one thing with another
novel coronavirus (abbr. for 新型冠狀病毒|新型冠状病毒[xin1 xing2 guan1 zhuang4 bing4 du2]) (esp. SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19)
novel coronavirus (abbr. for 新型冠狀病毒|新型冠状病毒[xin1 xing2 guan1 zhuang4 bing4 du2]) (esp. SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19)
COVID-19, the coronavirus disease identified in 2019
novel coronavirus (esp. SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19)
laurel crown / victory garland (in Greek and Western culture)
(bird species of China) greater yellownape (Chrysophlegma flavinucha)
definite article (grammar)
official class / intellectual class (idiom)

Sentences with 冠

冠 currently does not appear in any sentence.