forced labor / corvée / obligatory task / military service / to use as servant / to enserf / servant (old) / war / campaign / battle

= + : Maud Younger (y) has been forced to manucfacture black sneakers (彳) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). When she started the forced labor (役) all she got as a tool was a halberd (殳).

役 character breakdown

step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60) / see also 彳亍[chi4 chu4]

= 丿 + : Left foot: Black sneakers.
surname Shu
bamboo or wooden spear / Kangxi radical 79, occurring in 段[duan4], 毅[yi4], 殺|杀[sha1] etc

= + : Sheldon Shrimp (shu-) is practising his martial arts skills in front of the space station (-1). He's a specialist in the combined halberd (symbol for 殳) boxing style, and practises smashing tables (几) with his sucker punch (symbol for 又).

Characters with 役 as component

役 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 役

military service
forced labor / corvée (labor required of a serf) / animal labor
forced labor of feudal tenant (corvée) / bailiff of feudal yamen
to use (an animal or servant) / working (animal) / (beast) of burden / causative form of verbs (esp. in grammar of Japanese, Korean etc)
one person taking on two tasks simultaneously
corvee / laborer
Battle of Mt Mengliang in Shandong of 1947 between the Nationalists and Communists

Sentences with 役

役 currently does not appear in any sentence.