夷

夷
yí = y + Ø2
non-Han people, esp. to the East of China / barbarians / to wipe out / to exterminate / to tear down / to raze
夷 = 大 + 弓 : The barbarians (夷) are about to hijack the space station! Just inside the entrance Maud Younger (y) and the robot (大) will fight until their death to defend the space station. The robot even has a small composite bow (弓) in his robot hands.

夷 character breakdown

大
dài = d + ai4
see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
弓
go̅ng = gu + (e)ng1
a bow (weapon) / CL:張|张[zhang1] / to bend / to arch (one's back etc)
Mnemonic symbol: this character just looks like a composite bow.

Gitta Giraffe (gu) is shooting arrows with a composite bow (弓) in front of the engine ((e)ng1).
大
dà = d + a4
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
大 = 一 + 人 : 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 夷 as component

姨
yí = y + Ø2
mother's sister / aunt
姨 = 夷 + 女 : Maud Younger's (y) aunt (姨) and her boyfriend are visiting Bessie Coleman (女) and Maud in the space station. As they enter (Ø2), Maud and Bessie find out that Maud's aunt's new boyfriend is one of the barbarians (夷) who tried to enter the space station a while ago.
胰
yí = y + Ø2
soap / pancreas
胰
yí = y + Ø2
pancreas
咦
yí = y + Ø2
expression of surprise
痍
yí = y + Ø2
bruise / sores
荑
tí = ti + Ø2
(grass)
荑
yí = y + Ø2
to weed
侇
yí = y + Ø2
(old) class / category / corpse
峓
yí = y + Ø2
place name
恞
yí = y + Ø2
happy / joyous

Words with 夷

夏
威
夷
Hawaii, US state
匪
夷
所
思
unimaginable / outrageous / freakish
化
化
险
險
为
為
夷
夷
to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert disaster
夏
夏
威
威
夷
夷
岛
島
Hawaii island
夏
威
夷
州
Hawaii, US state
夏
威
夷
果
macadamia nut
三
夷
教
the three foreign religions (Nestorianism, Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism)
三
夷
教
the three foreign religions (Nestorianism, Manicheanism and Zoroastrianism)
以
夷
制
夷
to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties) / Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan)
凌
夷
to deteriorate / to decline / to slump / also written 陵夷

Sentences with 夷

夷 currently does not appear in any sentence.