to amass / to accumulate / to store / measured quantity (such as area of volume) / product (the result of multiplication) / to integrate (math.) / to solve (or integrate) an ordinary differential equation (math.) / old / long-standing

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) and the cuttlefish (只) are preparing for bad times in front of the space station (Ø1). Together they are piling up (积) cereals (禾) so that they can always eat in times of need.

积 character breakdown

only / merely / just / but

= + : Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like something (a head?) on two legs. I'll just represent it by a cuttlefish (只). James II of England (zh) has been in the space station (Ø3) as the only (只) one for too long and went mad. He thinks he's holding a mandarin (口), but he's just about to bite into merely (只) an eight ball (八). On the top of his head is a cuttlefish (只) he mistook for a hat.
variant of 只[zhi3]
cereal / grain

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: a bowl of cereals.

Hamlet (h) made himself a bowl of cereals (禾) with bananas (丿) and Christmas trees (木) in the elevator's kitchen (e2). He holds the bowl of cereals like he would hold Yorick's skull.
grain that has begun to ripen
variant of 只[zhi3]
classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc

Characters with 积 as component

积 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 积

to accumulate / accumulation / cumulative / cumulatively
toy building blocks
to coalesce / to gather together / to amass
to collect water / to be covered with water / to pond / accumulated water / ponding
to save bit by bit / to accumulate
to accumulate merit / to do good / to give to charity / virtuous actions
zeal / initiative / enthusiasm / activity
grievance / accumulated rancor
old habit (usually bad) / inbred custom / deep-rooted practice
deposits accumulated over long periods / fig. valuable experience, accumulated wisdom
cumulative weakness / to decline (over time) / degeneration
to accumulate manure / to lay down compost
Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture 臨夏回族自治州|临夏回族自治州[Lin2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Gansu
many generations of ancestors
storing grain against a famine / to lay sth by for a rainy day / also written 積穀防飢|积谷防饥
accumulated habits become custom
old habits are hard to change (idiom)

Sentences with 积

积 currently does not appear in any sentence.