variant of 笨[ben4]
to tamp / (slang) popular / hot

夯 character breakdown

surname Li
power / force / strength / ability / strenuously

= + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: a power button.

Li Qingzhao (li) just had a shower in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and wants to use the hair dryer, but there's no plug, just the bare end of the cable! She uses all her power to build an electricity plug, and for the two pins she uses a plough (㇆) and a banana (丿). Finally she hits a big power button (力) to turn the power on.
see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

= + : The big (大), huge (大) robot (mnemonic symbol for 大) is working out in the ashram's bathroom (a4). He's lifting a flute (一) to which Don Quixote (d) and Neanderthal man (人) are clinging.

Characters with 夯 as component

夯 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 夯

to ram / to tamp
rammer / tamper
rammed earth
to tamp / to ram (earth etc)
layer filled with rammed earth in a tomb pit (archeology)
rammers' work chant
carrier who carries heavy loads on his shoulder (dialect)
rammer / tamper
variant of 心拙口笨[xin1 zhuo1 kou3 ben4]

Sentences with 夯

夯 currently does not appear in any sentence.