to clutch / to grab / to capture

= + : In front of the observatory (o1) Julian Giant Squid (zhu) catches (捉) a football (足) using eight toy claws (扌).

捉 character breakdown

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.
excessive
foot / to be sufficient / ample

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a football. Zapatista Zebra (zu) wants to pimp his football (足) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He thinks that a few more vitamins wouldn't hurt, so he extracts the vitamins from a mandarin (口) with a syringe (龰) to inject them into his football.

Characters with 捉 as component

捉 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 捉

to catch / to grapple with / to hold onto
to catch a couple in the act (adultery, illicit sexual relations)
lit. pulling on the lapels exposes the elbows (idiom) / strapped for cash / unable to make ends meet
to play hide-and-seek
it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)
humorous pronunciation of 著急|着急[zhao2 ji2]
to arrest / to seize / to capture
trap (for animals etc)

Sentences with 捉

chén
fèng
zhǐ
qián
qù
zhuo̅
ná
ya̅o
hóu