以
old variant of 以[yi3]
㠯
=
尸
+
口
:
Mnemonic symbol: 㠯 looks like a cool pair of safety goggles.
A ghost (尸) has been hiding from Maud Younger (Ø3) in a mandarin (口). Maud finds the mandarin in the space station's living room (Ø3) and squeezes the ghost out, and in order to (㠯) be protected from the mandarin juice flying all around in zero gravity she is wearing safety goggles (㠯).
A ghost (尸) has been hiding from Maud Younger (Ø3) in a mandarin (口). Maud finds the mandarin in the space station's living room (Ø3) and squeezes the ghost out, and in order to (㠯) be protected from the mandarin juice flying all around in zero gravity she is wearing safety goggles (㠯).
to use / by means of / according to / in order to / because of / at (a certain date or place)
以 character breakdown
old variant of 私[si1]
Mnemonic symbol: a fake nose. Socrates (s) is wearing his fake nose (厶) in outer space, in front of the space station (Ø1).
person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
Characters with 以 as component
to plan to / to draft (a plan) / to imitate / to assess / to compare / pseudo-
doubtful / suspicious / variant of 擬|拟[ni3] / to emulate / to imitate
Words with 以
to succeed through failure / to achieve one's final aim despite apparent setback
to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties) / Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan)
lit. use sb's spear to attack his shield (idiom, derived from Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子); turning a weapon against its owner / fig. to attack an opponent using his own devices / hoist with his own petard
to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)