arrow / dart / straight / to vow / to swear / old variant of 屎[shi3]

= 𠂉 + : Sherlock Holmes and the robot are playing darts in the space station. Sherlock Holmes is a sore loser and thus programmed the robot to throw keys instead of real darts.

矢 character breakdown

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
Character component without intrinsic meaning

𠂉 = 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: 𠂉 looks like a key.

Imagine a banana you can't open without putting a key into each of the holes of a flute which is painted on its peel.
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

= + : The big (大), huge (大) robot (mnemonic symbol for 大) is working out in the ashram's bathroom (a4). He's lifting a flute (一) to which Don Quixote (d) and Neanderthal man (人) are clinging.

Characters with 矢 as component

to know / to be aware

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Francis Bacon is attributed to have stated "scientia potentia est", "knowledge is power". I'll thus represent 知 by Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon (知) and James II of England (zh) are playing darts (矢) in front of the space station (Ø1). Because they lack a dart board they just use a mandarin (口).
marquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / nobleman or high official

= + : The marquis and Rosa Luxemburg are throwing darts at a curling stone (which resembles the strokes above 失 and is held up by Hamlet) in the outhouse's kitchen. Since the curling stone is made of granite, there is no chance that one dart will ever stick to it.
surname Hou
marquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / nobleman; high official
medical / medicine / doctor / to cure / to treat

= + : Maud Younger is floating in front of the space station and very sick. There is a doctor around, but he is floating in space too, with no way of propulsion. The medicine Maud Younger needs is stored in darts which in turn are stored in a metal box. The doctor thus throws the darts with the medicine at Maud Younger to help her.
short / brief / to lack / weak point / fault

= + : Doggy Dog (du) is playing darts (矢) with some buddies inside of the anthill (an3). He ate a bunch of beans (豆) before, so every time he throws a dart (矢), he has to go to the bathroom for a short duration (短) to fart.
race / nationality / ethnicity / clan / by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)

= + 𠂉 + : Zapatista Zebra (zu) has become a member of the 低头族 (族). Just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2) he is constantly looking at his square (方) In his hands. Using a key (𠂉) he can unlock it and look at his precious darts (矢) which are hidden inside.
low / short (in length)

= + : Albert Einstein (Ø) takes part in a darts (矢) tournament in the airplane (ai3), but the airplane's throne is just in the way of his darts, and he is too short (矮) to effectively throw the darts over the throne. Luckily he brought an artificial leg (委) which he can use to shoot the darts.
to doubt / to suspect

= + + + : (Ø2)Maud Younger (y) found a hole in her hat and is furious. Just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2) she lines up her suspects (疑). First she suspects a ladle (匕), but it is not sharp enough. Then she inspects a boxing glove (又), but it is too large for the hole. Next she inspects a gumboot (疋), but it is not strong enough to make a hole. Finally she finds a dart (矢) and knows already: this is her suspect (疑) which caused the hole.
(bound form) disease; ailment / (bound form) swift / (literary) to hate; to abhor

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) got a colorful rash (疒) and dysentery (疾) on a trip outside of the space station. As soon as she re-entered the space station, she darts (矢) through the space station's entrance (Ø2) towards the restroom.
classical final particle, similar to modern 了[le5]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the finals of a TV show.

Maud Younger (y) made it to the finals of a TV show (矣) and is facing her last challenge in the space station (Ø3). With a fake nose (厶) covering her face she'll have to smell different darts (矢) and guess which dart player had it in his or her hands last.

Words with 矢

lit. target of a multitude of arrows (idiom); the butt of public criticism / attacked on all sides
vector (math.)
lit. to have a target in mind when shooting one's arrows (idiom) / fig. to have a clear objective
to take an oath to do sth / to pledge / to vow
to shoot without aim (idiom); fig. to speak without thinking / firing blindly / to shoot in the air / a shot in the dark
to hit the target with a single shot / to say something spot on (idiom)

Sentences with 矢

矢 currently does not appear in any sentence.