disposition of troops / wave / spate / burst / spell / short period of time / classifier for events or states of short duration

= + : James II of England (zh) and the pope (阝) were supposed to be in the army's very first attack wave (阵) driving a red cabriolet (车), but somehow they got lost and ended up in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4).

阵 character breakdown

surname Che
car / vehicle / CL:輛|辆[liang4] / machine / to shape with a lathe / Kangxi radical 159

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is parading in a cabriolet (mnemonic symbol for 车) in front of the elevator (e1), because he wants to establish his new cult. Like all successful leaders, he takes the carrot-and-stick approach: In one hand he's waving with a seven-branched laser sword (七), in the other one he's waving with a cross (十).
war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess)
Character component without intrinsic meaning

When on the left hand side of any character, it's the pope, but when it's on the right hand side of any character, it's the emperor.

Characters with 阵 as component

阵 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 阵

group of people / camp / faction / sides in a dispute
(military) position / front
period of time
a front (militant group) / line of battle / alignment (towards a political party etc)
troop arrangement / battle formation / lineup (of a sports team etc)
labor pains / (fig.) distress caused by a disruptive change
battle array / disposition of forces / situation / circumstance
lattice / dot matrix / bitmap
trying times; painful phase
people killed in battle
formation (of a sports team, troops etc)
trying times / painful phase
(archaic) formation of infantrymen led by chariots

Sentences with 阵

nǐ
qù
go̅ng
dǎ
tóu
zhèn