to tap / to knock lightly / old variant of 撲|扑[pu1]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a door knocker. Petra Penguin (pu) locked herself out of the space station (Ø1). She tries to get the others' attention by waving with a pennant (⺊) and knocking (攴) against the window with a boxing glove (又). Finally she uses a door knocker (攴) to knock on the door.

攴 character breakdown

surname Bu
(bound form) to divine / to forecast or estimate / (of a place to live etc) to choose

= + : Mnemonic symbol from "to divine" and the shape of the character: a voodoo staff.

Bruno Bear (bu-) tries to divine (卜) the future in the space station's living room (Ø3). He places a petal (丶) in the middle of the room as an offering and starts a magic ritual with his voodoo staff (卜). The staff transforms the petal into a dinosaur bone (丨). Bruno divines that the staff was trying to tell him that all things are mortal and must come to an end.
(once) again / also / both... and... / and yet / (used for emphasis) anyway

= + : And once again (又), Maud Younger (y) is preparing for battle. She's donning her boxing glove in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), puts on a beak (㇇) and plans go give her opponent the finger (㇏).
see 蘿蔔|萝卜[luo2 bo5]
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= + : Mnemonic symbol: ⺊ looks a bit like a pennant.

Someone stuck a flute into the middle of a hollow dinosaur bone to conduct studies on the speed of sound. At the one end of the hollow dinosaur bone is an answering pennant, used in the International Signal Code primarily for the reply "signal is received and understood", which should be raised as soon as the person is hearing the sound made by the flute.

Characters with 攴 as component

to hit / to strike / to tap / to rap / to knock / to rip sb off / to overcharge

= + : Someone built a skyscraper (高) in front of the aorta (ao1) without the Queen of Hearts' (qi) consent. First the Queen angrily knocks at the door using the door knocker (攴), but as no one answers she hits (敲) the door with a battering ram.
variant of 敘|叙[xu4]

= + : From time to time Xu Xian (xu) gets very lonely on the space station. In times like these he sits in his sedan chair (余) in the bathroom (Ø4) and chats (叙) with a boxing glove (又) on which he drew a face.
variant of 驅|驱[qu1]

= + : Cupid (qu) drove out (驱) the unicorn (马) and the alien (区) from the space station. Just in front of the space station (Ø1) the alien is riding on the unicorn towards earth, thinking of seeking refuge in area 51.
to invade / to plunder / bandit / foe / enemy
old variant of 寇[kou4]
old variant of 寇[kou4]
to weigh in the hand, to estimate / to shake
to pick up thing with chopsticks or pincers.
able (in administrating) / to govern forcefully
old variant of 敿[jiao3]

Words with 攴

攴 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 攴

攴 currently does not appear in any sentence.