material / stuff / grain / feed / to expect / to anticipate / to guess

= + : Li Qingzhao sees the matador fighting a sack of rice in the aorta's bathroom. At least she thinks she is fighting the sack of rice as he is repeatedly stabbing it. Truth is that he is working as inspector and taking samples of the rice to inspect the material.

料 character breakdown

abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星[Bei3 dou3 xing1]
dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[sheng1] or one-tenth of a 石[dan4] / decaliter / peck / cup or dipper shaped object / old variant of 陡[dou3]
rice / CL:粒[li4] / meter (classifier)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a sack of rice.

Marilyn Monroe and the mean crocodile celebrate Christmas with a Christmas tree inside of the space station. Coincidentally they got each other the same present: each of them is giving the other one a sack of rice.
to fight / to struggle / to condemn / to censure / to contend / to put together / coming together

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a 斗牛士 (dou4 niu2 shi4) is a matador, who will represent 斗 when used as component.

The matador (斗) and Don Quixote (d) are fighting (斗) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4) about who may use the bathroom next. The matador yields a holy cross (十) as a weapon, while Don Quixote (d) wisely chose a blossom (⺀) to cushion the crosses' blows.
variant of 鬭|斗[dou4]
variant of 鬥|斗[dou4]
variant of 鬥|斗[dou4]

Characters with 料 as component

料 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 料

to anticipate; to expect / expectations
cloth / material
waste products / refuse / garbage / good-for-nothing (derog.)
to come as no surprise / as expected
not expected at the outset (idiom) / unforeseen / to be surprised by the turn of events
Chinese anise / star anise
contrary to expectation / unexpected
sth of good quality / good person (usu. in the negative) / (Tw) delicious food
who would have thought? / who could have imagined? / unexpectedly
base ingredient / base (cooking) / primer (paint)

Sentences with 料

bù
liào
nà
ya̅o
hóu
fǎ
shù
ga̅o
qiáng