but / yet / however / while / to go back / to decline / to retreat / nevertheless / even though

= + : Cupid and the baby seal are fighting a war in the elevator's bathroom. Cupid shoots his arrows of love while the baby seal uses its big eyes to make everyone fall for it. However, at the moment everything is silent: Cupid and the baby seal both retreated into their concrete barrels for now.

卻 character breakdown

"seal" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 26)

= + : The meaning is seal as in insignia, but instead I'm going to represent it as baby seal (the animal) in other characters. Joan of Arc (ji) is using a plow (㇆) to dig up baby seals (卩) in the elevator's kitchen (e2). As soon as they jump out of the ground she clubs them with a dinosaur bone (丨).
grain / corn

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: popcorn.

= + + : Gitta Giraffe conducts an experiment in the space station. She shows Neanderthal Man three things: a mandarin, popcorn, and an eight-ball, and records how much he likes to eat each of these. Neanderthal Man thinks that the eight ball is a little crunchy.
surname Gu

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: popcorn.

= + + : Gitta Giraffe conducts an experiment in the space station. She shows Neanderthal Man three things: a mandarin, popcorn, and an eight-ball, and records how much he likes to eat each of these. Neanderthal Man thinks that the eight ball is a little crunchy.
valley

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: popcorn.

= + + : Gitta Giraffe conducts an experiment in the space station. She shows Neanderthal Man three things: a mandarin, popcorn, and an eight-ball, and records how much he likes to eat each of these. Neanderthal Man thinks that the eight ball is a little crunchy.

Characters with 卻 as component

foot / leg (of an animal or an object) / base (of an object) / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1] / classifier for kicks

= + : In the aorta Joan of Arc wanted to play a prank on the moon and kick him in the ass while he's inattentive for a second, but when she kicked him she just hurt her foot, and the moon didn't even notice. Silently, she retreats for now, limping on her hurt foot.
variant of 角[jue2] / role

Words with 卻

to retreat / to shrink back

Sentences with 卻

卻 currently does not appear in any sentence.