moat around a city

堑 character breakdown

Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Tommy Turtle (tu) wants to fix a cross (十) on a flute (一) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He uses dust and clay (土) to hold them together.
to behead (as form of capital punishment) / to chop

= + : Mnemonic symbol from 斩草除根: lawn mower. James II of England (zh) accidentally dropped bar bells (斤) onto the anthill's owner's cabriolet (车). The owner is mad as hell and wants to behead (斩) James II of England in the living room (an3) using a lawn mower (斩).

Characters with 堑 as component

堑 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 堑

Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes.
trench, rift valley
(civil engineering) cutting (for a railway or highway)

Sentences with 堑

堑 currently does not appear in any sentence.