刑

刑
xíng = xi + (e)ng2
surname Xing
刑 = 刂 + 开 : A device with a knife and a bottle opener is a Swiss pocket knife. Marie Curie is awaiting punishment for smuggling a Swiss pocket knife past the engine's kitchen. The punishment is that her Swiss pocket knife will be taken away.
刑
xíng = xi + (e)ng2
punishment / penalty / sentence / torture / corporal punishment
刑 = 刂 + 开 : A device with a knife and a bottle opener is a Swiss pocket knife. Marie Curie is awaiting punishment for smuggling a Swiss pocket knife past the engine's kitchen. The punishment is that her Swiss pocket knife will be taken away.

刑 character breakdown

刂
da̅o = d + ao1
Kangxi radical 18 (刀[dao1]) as a vertical side element / see also 立刀旁[li4 dao1 pang2] / see also 側刀旁|侧刀旁[ce4 dao1 pang2]
刂 = 丨 + 亅 : Mnemonic symbol: a kitchen knife. Don Quixote (d) is showing off his special knifes in front of the aorta (ao1). One is made from a dinosaur bone (丨), and the other is made from a crowbar (亅).
开
開
ka̅i = k + ai1
to open / to start / to turn on / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / to operate (a vehicle) / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2] / abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format
开 = 一 + 廾 : A bottle opener. Karl Marx is sitting in front of the airplane, begging for money. He's playing a flute and has his bottle opener ready for the next beer, but unfortunately, he'll be carried away, his hands cuffed, soon.

Characters with 刑 as component

型
xíng = xi + (e)ng2
mold / type / style / model
型 = 刑 + 土 : Marie Curie (xi) is carving a mould (型) out of a lump of earth (土) using a pocket knife (刑) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2). She wants to use it to model (型) the stones in the engine.
荆
荊
ji̅ng = ji + (e)ng1
chaste tree or berry (Vitex agnus-castus) / alternative name for the Zhou Dynasty state of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 guo2]
侀
xíng = xi + (e)ng2
shape / statute
硎
xíng = xi + (e)ng2
whetstone
铏
鉶
xíng = xi + (e)ng2
soup cauldron / (arch.) sacrificial tripod with two handles and a lid / old variant of 硎[xing2]

Words with 刑

上
刑
severe punishment / worst punishment / to torture
刑
事
犯
a criminal
刑
刑
事
事
审
審
判
判
庭
庭
criminal court
刑
事
局
Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB)
刑
事
拘
留
to detain as criminal / criminal detention
刑
事
法
庭
criminal court
刑
事
法
院
criminal court / judiciary court
刑
刑
事
事
诉
訴
讼
訟
法
法
criminal procedure
刑
事
警
察
criminal police / member of the criminal police
五
刑
imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨[mo4], cutting off the nose 劓[yi4], amputation of one or both feet 刖[yue4], castration 宮|宫[gong1], execution 大辟[da4 pi4] / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞[chi1], beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖[zhang4], forced labor 徒[tu2], exile or banishment 流[liu2], capital punishment 死[si3]

Sentences with 刑

刑 currently does not appear in any sentence.