to execute (a plan) / to grasp

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 执照, "license". James II of England (zh) is being held up at the security check in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). They hold a bag of painkillers (丸) they found with a toy claw (扌) in front of him and they ask him to show his drug license (执).

执 character breakdown

ball / pellet / pill

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bag of painkillers.

Willy Walrus feels like floating on cloud nine after he took too many painkillers. Floating on cloud nine just inside the anthill's kitchen he covers himself with a large petal leaf and just wants to sleep.
"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.

Characters with 执 as component

to warm up / to heat up / hot (of weather) / heat / fervent

= + : Robinson Crusoe wants to heat himself up in the elevator's bathroom, so he burns his good-for-nothing grilling license on a grill to ignite a sizeable flame.
power / influence / potential / momentum / tendency / trend / situation / conditions / outward appearance / sign / gesture / male genitals

= + : The space station's scientists want to conduct an experiment in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) to find the momentum (势) and potential energy (势) of a pendulum in zero gravity. Everything is already set up, they just have to push the power button (力)—but Sherlock Holmes (sh) insists on seeing their license (执) first before he allows it.
pad / cushion / mat / to pad out / to fill a gap / to pay for sb / to advance (money)

= + : Dorothy Gale (di) built an air cushion (垫) vehicle out of dirt (土) in the anthill's bathroom (an4) and happily rides it in circles, until a police officer appears and asks for her license (执).
surname Zhi
sincere

= + : James II of England (zh) is a sincere (挚) baseball fan and wants to take his hobby to the next level, so he gets a very expensive, officially licensed (执) baseball glove (手). The license (执) is still attached to the glove (手) as he tries it on for the first time in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
obscene / disrespectful
to hibernate
gifts to superiors
fierce / brutal / bird of prey
to connect / to tie up

Words with 执

obstinate / stubborn / to fixate on / to cling to
prejudice / bigotry
to be on duty (of a security guard etc)
to hold power / in office
receipt (written acknowledgement of receipt of an item)
to speak out for justice (idiom); to take a stand on a matter of principle
each sticks to his own version (idiom); a dialogue of the deaf
to perform one's job / attendant / job / duties / (respectful appellation for the addressee) you / your Excellency / (Church) deacon
paraphernalia of a guard of honor
obsession / CL:股[gu3] / (when followed by 於|于[yu2]) to be obsessive (about)
to tidy up (dialect)
executable (computing)
each sticks to his own view (idiom); a dialogue of the deaf

Sentences with 执

执 currently does not appear in any sentence.