my (polite) / poor / ruined / shabby / worn out / defeated

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a pair of old worn-out shoes.

Brunhilde (bi) has been on a treasure hunt for weeks now because she found an old map (冂). For her hunt she brought a sack of rice (米) which she already more or less used up. After digging up the floor of the space station's bathroom (Ø40) with a sledgehammer (攵) at the point indicated on the map, she finally finds the treasure: a pair of old worn-out shoes (敝) which were incredibly valuable to the owner, but are worthless for Brunhilde.

敝 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13), occurring in 用[yong4], 同[tong2], 網|网[wang3] etc, referred to as 同字框[tong2 zi4 kuang4]

= + : Kind of looks like a map. Zeus found a secret map that tells the location of a golden dinosaur bone in front of the engine, so he took a plough and digged up everything. He actually found a couple of dinosaur bones, but not a golden one.
variant of 攴[pu1]

= 𠂉 + : Mnemonic symbol: the epitome of rapping and tapping is a sledge hammer. Petra pinguin (pu) forgot her key (𠂉) and know she's locked out of the space station (Ø1). At first she tries to open the lock with pliers (乂), but in the end she has no choice but to use the sledge hammer (攵).
surname Mi
rice / CL:粒[li4] / meter (classifier)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a sack of rice.

Marilyn Monroe and the mean crocodile celebrate Christmas with a Christmas tree inside of the space station. Coincidentally they got each other the same present: each of them is giving the other one a sack of rice.

Characters with 敝 as component

to make sb change their ways, opinions etc
money / coins / currency / silk

= 丿 + : Brunhilde (bi) wants to take a shower in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). Wearing only a towel (巾) she is fiddling with the coin (币) operated switch. She is to greedy to use a real coin, so she inserts a fake one. The machine detects the fake coin though and instead of water there are bananas (丿) coming out of the shower head.
to cover / to shield / to screen / to conceal

= + : Brunhilde (bi) is so ashamed that she only found a pair of worn-out shoes (敝) on her quest in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) that she covers (蔽) the shoes with a sheet of artificial lawn (艹).
detriment / fraud / harm / defeat

= + : Brunhilde (bi) was running a fraudulent (弊) business in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) where she would sell overpriced old, worn-out shoes (敝) to unsuspecting victims. She was found out though and is right about to be taken into custody with her hands cuffed (廾).
to cast away / to fling aside
to throw / to cast / left-slanting downward brush stroke (calligraphy)
to die / to shoot dead / to reject / to fall forward / (suffix) to death
to choke / to stifle / to restrain / to hold back / to hold in (urine) / to hold (one's breath)

= + : To prepare for battle Brunhilde (bi) wants to stifle (憋) her emotions, so she chokes (憋) her heart (心) with a pair of old worn-out shoes (敝) in front of the elevator (e1).
freshwater soft-shelled turtle
variant of 鱉|鳖[bie1]
to shoot a glance / glance / to appear in a flash
to limp / to sprain (an ankle or wrist) / to move carefully, as if evading a danger / to scurry

Words with 敝

impoverished / destitute / hard / depressed (of business) / tattered / ragged
worn-out shoes / a worthless thing
to care nothing for worldly fame and glory (idiom)
lit. my worn-out broom, a thousand in gold (idiom); fig. sentimental value / I wouldn't be parted with it for anything.
to value the broom as one's own (idiom); to attach value to sth because it is one's own / a sentimental attachment
to toss away like a pair of worn-out shoes (idiom)
to throw away like worn out shoes
the people's livelihood is reduced to destitution (idiom); a time of famine and impoverishment
shabby / damaged
to regard like a pair of worn-out shoes / to look on sth as worthless

Sentences with 敝

敝 currently does not appear in any sentence.