sluggish

= + + + : James II of England (zh) has stacked thirty (卅) cooking tops (冖) as a pyramid on top of a towel (巾) on the floor of the space station bathroom (Ø4), and sluggishly (滞) pulls the towel with a belt (带). He soaks the towel in water from a bottle of water (氵) to make it slide more easily.

滯 character breakdown

band / belt / girdle / ribbon / tire / area / zone / region / CL:條|条[tiao2] / to wear / to carry / to take along / to bear (i.e. to have) / to lead / to bring / to look after / to raise

= + + : Don Quixote purchased thirty cooking tops in the airplane's bathroom to build new armor out of them. Now the question is: how does he get them home? Finally he has a good idea: He spreads out a towel on the floor, stacks the thirty cooking tops as a pyramid and pulls the towel with a belt. It works! This way he can bring them back to his place.
"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 沒|没[mei2], 法[fa3], 流[liu2] etc / see also 三點水|三点水[san1 dian3 shui3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bottle of water. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) enjoys a bottle of water (氵) in the Eiffel Tower's living room (ei3). The got the water by scratching (㇀) a blossom (⺀) and catching the leaking dew in a bottle.

Characters with 滯 as component

滯 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 滯

stagnation / at a standstill / bogged down
(of a person) to remain in (a place) (due to circumstances that prevent one leaving); to be stranded / (of sth that would typically dissipate, e.g. floodwater, pollutants) to remain; to linger
to detain / retention
stuck and not moving forward (idiom); stagnant / in a rut / at a standstill
dull / lifeless / sluggish
overdue fine / late fine
to sell poorly / unmarketable / slow-moving (product, inventory etc)
to stagnate / to congeal / (fig.) to stop still / to freeze
demurrage charge (shipping) (currency)
to have a lifeless look in one's eyes (idiom)
dull (complexion)
stationary front (meteorology)
overdue (payment) / in arrears
stagflation (i.e. simultaneous inflation and stagnation)
(in Chinese medicine) stasis (of blood or other fluids)
stagnation of 氣|气[qi4] (TCM)
silted up / obstructed by silt / variant of 瘀滯|瘀滞[yu1 zhi4]

Sentences with 滯

滯 currently does not appear in any sentence.