尾
tail / remainder / remnant / extremity / sixth of the 28 constellations / classifier for fish
尾
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尸
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毛
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Willy Walrus (w) knows that there is a ghost (尸) in the Eiffel Tower (ei3), but he cannot see it, so he set up a trap: he put a lot of sticky hair (毛) everywhere, and eventually the hair stuck to the ghost's tail (尾). Now that Willy Walrus can see where the ghost is he is able to drive it out.
尾 character breakdown
person representing the dead (during burial ceremonies) / to put a corpse on display (after execution) / variant of 屍|尸[shi1] / corpse
Sherlock Holmes (sh) is investigating a crime scene with a corpse (尸) in front of the space station (Ø1). The victim's ghost (尸) is trying to give him hints from the afterlife about their killer.
hair / feather / down / wool / mildew / mold / coarse or semifinished / young / raw / careless / unthinking / nervous / scared / (of currency) to devalue or depreciate / classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1])
Characters with 尾 as component
Words with 尾
(bird species of China) bronzed drongo (Dicrurus aeneus)
(coll.) lowest-ranking (student, participant etc) / to rank at the bottom of the list / to finish last
lit. head in Wu and tail in Chu (idiom); fig. close together / head-to-tail / one thing starts where the other leaves off
(bird species of China) ratchet-tailed treepie (Temnurus temnurus)
(coll.) person who puts on an act: feigning ignorance, pretending to be solicitous, acting innocent etc
(bird species of China) greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus)
to tuck one's tail between one's legs / fig. to back down / in a humiliating situation
