to redeem / to ransom

贖 character breakdown

surname Bei
cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a crab. In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), the Neanderthal man (人) and Beelzebub (b) are fighting a crab with staplers (⺆), but because the Neanderthal man (人) can't handle the stapler he accidentally staples himself in the forehead.
to sell / to betray / to spare no effort / to show off or flaunt

= + + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) wants to get rid of his worldly possessions and sets up a flea market in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). He displays a cross (十), a sickle (㇖) and a skull (头) which he wants to sell (卖), so he attached price tags to all of them.

Characters with 贖 as component

贖 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 贖

to atone for one's crime / to buy freedom from punishment / redemption / atonement
to atone for one's crimes by meritorious acts
price paid to redeem an object / (religion) price paid to redeem sb / ransom
Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement (Jewish holiday)
the Yom Kippur war of October 1973 between Israel and her Arab neighbors
(dialect) to give change
to redeem / redemption; salvation

Sentences with 贖

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