sharp / favorable / advantage / benefit / profit / interest / to do good to / to benefit

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the rocket Arianne, 亚利安娜.

Li Qingzhao (li) prepares to go back to earth in the Arianne rocket (利). In the space station's bathroom (Ø4) she prepares for the trip by stuffing lots of cereals (禾) into the rocket and sharpening (利) the tip of the rocket with a kitchen knife (刂).

利 character breakdown

Kangxi radical 18 (刀[dao1]) as a vertical side element / see also 立刀旁[li4 dao1 pang2] / see also 側刀旁|侧刀旁[ce4 dao1 pang2]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a kitchen knife. Don Quixote (d) is showing off his special knifes in front of the aorta (ao1). One is made from a dinosaur bone (丨), and the other is made from a crowbar (亅).
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.

Characters with 利 as component

variant of 哩[li5]
smooth / active / clever / sharp
old variant of 梨[li2]
to attend (official functions)
bald / scabby

Words with 利

squeaky clean / neat and tidy / efficient
mutually beneficial
(of speech or actions) direct and efficient / without fooling around
see 不知好歹[bu4 zhi1 hao3 dai3]
see 乾脆利落|干脆利落[gan1 cui4 li4 luo5]
Ariane (French space rocket)
small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out
Suntory, Japanese beverage company

Sentences with 利

利 currently does not appear in any sentence.