disposition of troops / wave / spate / burst / spell / short period of time / classifier for events or states of short duration

= + : James II of England (zh) and the pope (阝) were supposed to be in the army's very first attack wave (阵) driving a red cabriolet (车), but somehow they got lost and ended up in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4).

阵 character breakdown

surname Che
car / vehicle / CL:輛|辆[liang4] / machine / to shape with a lathe / Kangxi radical 159

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is parading in a cabriolet (mnemonic symbol for 车) in front of the elevator (e1), because he wants to establish his new cult. Like all successful leaders, he takes the carrot-and-stick approach: In one hand he's waving with a seven-branched laser sword (七), in the other one he's waving with a cross (十).
war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess)
Character component without intrinsic meaning

When on the left hand side of any character, it's the pope, but when it's on the right hand side of any character, it's the emperor.

Characters with 阵 as component

阵 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 阵

a burst / a fit / a peal / a spell (period of time)
to go into battle
poised for battle / to square up for a fight
to cheer / to root for
to be defeated on the battlefield / to be beaten in a contest
the enemy ranks
to bring up the rear / to provide support / to hold the lines
to challenge an opponent to a fight
cast (of a movie etc) / lineup of performers / troupe
brothel (esp. in Yuan theater)
ball grid array (BGA), type of microchip package
to go into battle / to strike at the enemy
adjoint matrix (math.)
eight-trigram battle array / (fig.) mystifying tactics

Sentences with 阵

nǐ
qù
go̅ng
dǎ
tóu
zhèn