含
to keep / to contain / to suck (keep in your mouth without chewing)
含
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今
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口
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Hamlet (h) caught a cold and in order to cure it, he follows a very strict medicine plan. He put up a rip-off calendar (今) in the anthill's kitchen which shows when he has to put a cough drop (mnemonic symbol for 含) in his mouth (口) to suck (含). The calendar always shows the right date: today (今). Hamlet made the cough drops himself out of mandarins (口).
含 character breakdown
now / the present time / current / contemporary / this (day, year etc)
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
Characters with 含 as component
before daybreak / dawn about to break / (used in given names)
chin / to nod (one's assent)
enthalpy
a sound / to put in the mouth
gems or pearls formerly put into the mouth of a corpse
a mouth or opening
to hold / to contain
Words with 含
to eat humble pie / to accept humiliation / to turn the other cheek
Sentences with 含
含 currently does not appear in any sentence.