prison

= + + : 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

= + : Cupid wants to play fetch with the Saint Bernard dog in the anthill and throws a petal leaf over his head, but the dog just continues sleeping. Much to Cupid's surprise though, a big robot happily leaps after the petal leaf.

= + : Looks like a Saint Bernard dog with only one eye.
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 / infernal / underworld / (Buddhism) Naraka
to be released from prison
to break out of prison / to jailbreak (an iOS device etc)
lit. to get shackled and thrown in jail (idiom) / fig. to be put behind bars / to get jailed
to go to prison / to be imprisoned
to escape (from prison) / to jump bail
imperial prison
(Buddhism) the Avici Hell, the last and most painful of the eight hot hells

Sentences with 狱

狱 currently does not appear in any sentence.