"lid" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 8)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 亠 looks like a beret. Tecumseh (t) is killing time in the Outhouse's kitchen (ou2) by playing a game. His goal is to blow a petal leaf (丶) into a beret (亠) by blowing air through a flute (一).

亠 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
"dot" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 3) / see also 點|点[dian3]

This character shall be represented by a petal (丶) when appearing in other characters.

Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is napping in the space station's living room (Ø3) and hugging a petal (丶).

Characters with 亠 as component

12th earthly branch: 9-11 p.m., 10th solar month (7th November-6th December), year of the Boar / ancient Chinese compass point: 330°

= + + : Hamlet is terribly afraid by a beret-wearing boar in the airplane's bathroom, but fortunately Neanderthal man is there to protect him and to fight of the boar with a huge fake nose.

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a boar.
old variant of 凶[xiong1]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the Chinese demon 白骨精 (Báigǔjīng), a skeleton demoness. Baigujing (㐫) wants to seduce Xu Xian (xu) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). In order not to reveal her true identity, she hides her skull under a demon mask (凶) and a beret (亠).
brain / mind / head / essence

= + + : Napoleon and the moon lost their minds in the aorta and put their brains in the middle of the room. Now they're dancing around their brains in a weird ceremony. The moon put on a vicious demon mask and Napoleon is wearing a way too large beret while they dance around their brains.
to leave / to part from / to be away from / (in giving distances) from / without (sth) / independent of / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire / ☲

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: from 离心机 or 离心分离机, a centrifuge.

= + + : Li Qingzhao is about to leave the space station. As a souvenir she put her beret in the space station's centrifuge and got a demon mask out. Angrily she tramples on the demon mask because what she wanted was a nice and modern hat.
mythical beast (archaic)
surname Li
stingy

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: stingray.

The stingy stingray (啬) and the mean crocodile (丷) want to return (回) to the river using the elevator's toilet (e4), but lots of dirt (土) is blocking their way. They ask the elevator's boss Socrates (s) for help, but he doesn't make his hands dirty so he starts a boring monologue about living as an expat. As the stingray and the crocodile realize he won't help them they start crying out loudly.
high / overbearing / excessive

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a turtleneck sweater.

Karl Marx suffers from a writer's block, so he decides to stimulate his writing by creating a writer's environment. He dresses like the classical poets wearing a turtleneck and putting on a beret. Then he sets up his small table in the anglepod's bathroom and continues writing.
surname Kang / Kang, one of the 28 constellations

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a turtleneck sweater.

Karl Marx suffers from a writer's block, so he decides to stimulate his writing by creating a writer's environment. He dresses like the classical poets wearing a turtleneck and putting on a beret. Then he sets up his small table in the anglepod's bathroom and continues writing.
to abandon / to relinquish / to discard / to throw away

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) made a vow to not wear any hats anymore in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). She thus throws away (弃) her caps (弁) and her berets (亠) by throwing it out of the window into outer space.
sincere

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: to bow and show how earnest you mean it.

Don Quixote (d) ordered a beer at the bar in the anthill (an3). The barkeeper questions whether or not Don Quixote will return (回) the mug (旦) after he finishes his beer, so Don Quixote bows and shows how sincere (亶) he is by handing over his beret (亠) as security deposit.
surname Dan
prosperous / henry (unit of inductance)

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: American scientist Joseph Henry.

Before Henry (亨) invented inductance he used to hang out with Hamlet (h) a lot in front of the engine ((e)ng1). One day he observed Hamlet shifting a mandarin (口) from a price cup (了) to a beret (亠) and vice versa, which gave him the idea of putting an iron core into an electromagnet.

Words with 亠

亠 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 亠

亠 currently does not appear in any sentence.