to press against / to support / to prop up / to resist / to equal / to balance / to make up for / to mortgage / to arrive at / to clap (one's hands) lightly (expressing delight) (Taiwan pr. [zhi3] for this sense)

= + : Hostile aliens want to invade the space station, but Dorothy Gale (di) resists (抵) by pressing (抵) with a toy claw (扌) against the space station's (Ø3) foundation (氐) which is about to break under the aliens' attacks.

抵 character breakdown

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.
name of an ancient tribe
foundation / on the whole

= + : Dorothy Gale pulled a petal leaf out of the space station concrete foundation. Christopher MacLeod explains her that it was a special petal leaf, and that Dorothy is destined to be the king of England now that she pulled it out.

Characters with 抵 as component

抵 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 抵

to arrive / to reach (a destination)
to provide (an asset) as security for a loan / to put up collateral
to resist / to withstand
to conflict / to contradict
to refuse to admit (what one has done) / to disavow / to renege
to repay a debt in kind or by labor
variant of 抵消[di3 xiao1]
store credit (credit to be spent at a specified retailer)
lit. to live and sleep together (idiom); fig. a close friendship
lit. to live and sleep together (idiom); fig. a close friendship
to arrive in China
to compensate for / to make good

Sentences with 抵

抵 currently does not appear in any sentence.