now / the present time / current / contemporary / this (day, year etc)

= + : A rip off calendar showing today's date: 今

= + : Joan of Arc has changed into half-duck half-human being and lives in a tipi in front of the encampment. With her beak, she shows a rip off calender with the date of Armageddon: today.

今 character breakdown

variant of 集[ji2]

= + : This one looks like a pointed cap.

Joan of Arc (ji) is going to have her first day of school the next day. During the night she sneaked into the space station's kitchen (Ø2) and found a pointed cap (亼) filled with sweets, which she starts eating immediately.
archaic variant of 亼[ji2]
one of the characters used in kwukyel (phonetic "ra"), an ancient Korean writing system

= + : Looks like a tipi.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

This one looks like a beak.

Characters with 今 as component

wife of mother's brother
bright
character used in place names
(person)
a sash / to tie
old variant of 黔[Qian2]
(bird)
old variant of 陰|阴[yin1]
leather shoes / leather belt / thin bamboo strips

Words with 今

hereafter / henceforth / in the future / from now on
tonight / this evening
this morning
(coll.) today
things are very different now (idiom) / times have changed
at the present / now
same as 近體詩|近体诗[jin4 ti3 shi1]
modern (i.e. not ancient) pronunciation of a Chinese character

Sentences with 今

qǐ
zòu
wàn
suì
 
 
ji̅n
yǒu
ya̅o
hóu
su̅n
wù
ko̅ng