enemy / to be a match for / to rival / to resist / to withstand
敌
=
攵
+
舌
:
Dorothy Gale (di) is fighting her enemy (敌), the Wicked Witch of the West, by attacking her with a sledgehammer (攵) while threatening her with her tongue (舌) stuck out just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2).
攵
=
𠂉
+
乂
:
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).
舌
=
千
+
口
:
Sherlock Holmes squashed his tongue under a kilo just inside the elevator's kitchen! He tries to stem the kilo with a mandarin, but not very successfully.
Characters with 敌 as component
敌
is not used as a component in another character.
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation