Chinese character/hanzi/kanji mnemonics

allograph (different shape but same meaning)

connotation as a character part

abbreviated, abbreviation

contracted, contraction

extended meaning

government

kanji, ideograph, character

literal translation from the Shuowen Jiezi

modified, modification

mijn hanzi, modification

opposite meaning or situation

when used as a character part

explanation according to Richard Sears (http://hanziyuan.net/)

one of the 214 radicals in the traditional character classification system

situation chosen for evoking this meaning

suffix for counting units of objects, etc.

Unclassified by Joseph De Roo.

畫畫R S 画画		a painting, picture, drawing, to draw	brush 聿 painting on a 一 flat 田 piece of paper → 畫/lowest part of → 画; brush being dipped into ink container 凵 before painting or drawing	額絵
屮屮R S	屮𡳾艹	sprout, rad. 45	sprout 丨 shooting out of its receptacle 凵; con.: grass
出出R S		go out, send out, stand, produce	sprout 屮 coming out of a receptacle 凵	癶; 拙屈
胸胸R S	胷	breast, bosom, chest, thorax	which is on the body ⺼, is hidden behind a cover 凶 but opens the mouth 勹 of men when seen which is on the body ⺼, hidden behind a shirt's breast pocket 凶 (or: 凵 as breast's boob with 㐅 as its nipple) lined by an arm 勹 at rest	乳; 懐
丞丞R S	㞼亟拯	assist, aid, rescue	RS. to deliver with the hands 廾 a man 卩 from a hole 凵 -> 㞼 → 丞
度度R S		degree, system, manner, to consider	hand 又 feeling the temperature of a pot 凵 with lid 一 in house 广 hand 又 checking things extensively 广 twenty 廿 times: systematically	程段; 遍回; 渡
腦腦R S 脑脑	脳匘	brain	the brain 𡿺 of a man ⺼ ⓢ a man ⺼ who covers 亠 bad 凶 ideas and improves them uses his brain modf. 腦 → 脳 ⓢ the meat 月 that controls 乂 us from a box 凵 on the head 亠
凶凶R S		culprit, murder, bad, sad	a murderer hides his traces 㐅 by putting them away in a box 凵	㐫
㐫㐫R S		cruel, unfortunate, sad	a murderer hides his cruel crime 㐅 by putting everything away in a box 凵 and covering it 亠	凶
凷凷R S		a clod of dirt	RS. a vessel 凵 full of dirt 土
炗炗R S		light	fire 火 under a pot 凵 with lid 一; see 光	黃
廿廿R S		twenty	two times ten 十十 connected 一 con. a pot 凵 with a lid 一	革度炗
齒齒R S 齿齿	𠚕歯	teeth, gears, cogs, age, rad. 211	stop 止 holes forming in RS. a mouth full of teeth 𠚕 a dentist stops 止 rice 米 from entering holes 凵 in teeth white teeth like rice 米 stopping 止 things entering the mouth 凵 ⓢ stops 止 things entering 入 the mouth 凵 stopping 止 gears 米 in a machine 凵