To Cause
shǐ
shi-/sh- Male
-Ø childhood home
Bedroom or Living Room
亻 Chuck Norris
一 Razor Blade
史 Julius Caesar

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Robert Carver
Shaq (Sh-) is in the bedroom at my parent's house (nil), playing basketball with Jean Claude van Damme (亻) and Napoleon (史). It's two on one, and JCVD and Napoleon are losing by one point with 2 seconds to go. So they decide to foul Shaq by slicing him with a razor blade (一), knowing that he can't make a free-throw to save his life, CAUSING him to lose the game.
Xiao Tian
Keyword: To Cause
Actor: Sean Connery
Set: bedroom of childhood home
Props: John Wayne (亻)
Razor Blade (一)
Ben Franklin flying his kite (史)
Strange but true, it was actually John Wayne who convinced Ben Franklin to tie a razor blade to his kite. This is what caused the lightning strike. They did this from the bedroom window of my childhood home.
William Edmeades
Keyword: To Cause
Actor: Sean Connery
Set: Lounge of Childhood home (1930s)
Props: Chuck Norris (亻), Razor Blade (一), Hilter (史)
Hitler was a bit down in the dumps about being rejected from Art School one too many times, so he consults his long-time friend, Chuck. Chuck pats him on the head with a razor blade and reassures Hitler that if he sets his mind to something there's no telling what he can't achieve! Reinvigorated, Hitler leaves the room with a positive mindset. Soon after, Sean Connery bursts into the room saying "Turn on the TV!", to which Chuck did so, only to discover a newscaster reporting live the rise of the Nazi party.
Uh oh, I think Chuck just CAUSED World War 2!
Ija
Keyword : To Cause
Actor : Sean Connery
Set : My childhood home
Props : Jason Momoa, Razor Blade, Julius Caesar
Sean Connery the British Spy and Jason Momoa, the guardian of Atlantis, found out on Twitter that Julius Caesar was back to conquer his lifelong mission of world domination and CAUSE mayhem to the peaceful modern world.
Sean, with Jason, kidnapped Caesar as he was roaming around looking for a “Roman Embassy” and hid him inside my childhood bedroom. 3 of them stood facing each other. Caesar had a fierce look on his face and Sean was anxious about their possible next CAUSE of action.
Jason told Sean there was no CAUSE for concern. Even though he was once an emperor, Caesar had a weakness.
Jason then took a razor blade, brought it closer to Caesar’s neck …
.. and shaved all of Caesar’s hair!
Caesar, who was very self-conscious about his receding hairline, was terrified, exerted all his strength to escape, and went into hiding.
Sean blamed Jason for being too kind to Caesar. Jason then explained that it was the best he could do to keep the scene non-violent.
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P/s: It is reported that Caesar was last seen in China, pretending to be a Chinese teacher online - laced with hidden propaganda for his CAUSE.
Image credit: CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Robert
This was a difficult character for me to learn because it starts with 史(history) then jumps to 使(cause). For some weird mental connection reason, I found that I needed to differentiate and link the characters together with the intermediate character 吏(government official). then when I write 使 I see the pieces of the pictogram better and I dont miss out any part of the final character.
Abigail
What's the difference between 因 and 使 to mean 'cause'?
Mandarin Blueprint
使 is more formal, and is more like "to make (something happen/someone do something), rather than "because"