狱
prison
狱
=
犭
+
讠
+
犬
:
Yu the Great (yu) opened an animal shelter in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), and she put up an advertisement column (讠) with the faces of her dachshund (犭) and her Saint Bernard dog (犬). For the dogs however the animal shelter is more like a prison (狱) because they are kept in small cages.
狱 character breakdown
dog / Kangxi radical 94
three-stroke form of Kangxi radical 94 犬[quan3]
Cupid takes his dachshund out for a walk to the anthill, where he has a drink with his dachshund.
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]
Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).
fault / mistake
Characters with 狱 as component
狱
is not used as a component in another character.
Words with 狱
hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive / fig. having an uncomfortable time
literary inquisition / official persecution of intellectuals for their writing
Qincheng Prison, maximum-security prison located about 30 km north of central Beijing, whose inmates include former high-level officials convicted of corruption
Sentences with 狱
狱 currently does not appear in any sentence.