to reside / to live / to dwell / to be in / to be situated at / to stay / to get along with / to be in a position of / to deal with / to discipline / to punish
place / location / spot / point / office / department / bureau / respect / classifier for locations or items of damage: spot, point

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a spotlight

= + : Chantal Chicken has found the perfect spot for her performance. In the space station's bathroom she puts on her high heels, sets up the voodoo staff, turns on the spotlight and practices her voodoo pole dance in this protected location.

处 character breakdown

(bound form) to divine / to forecast or estimate / (of a place to live etc) to choose

= + : Mnemonic symbol from "to divine" and the shape of the character: a voodoo staff.

Bruno Bear (bu-) tries to divine (卜) the future in the space station's living room (Ø3). He places a petal (丶) in the middle of the room as an offering and starts a magic ritual with his voodoo staff (卜). The staff transforms the petal into a dinosaur bone (丨). Bruno divines that the staff was trying to tell him that all things are mortal and must come to an end.
"walk slowly" component in Chinese characters / see also 冬字頭|冬字头[dong1 zi4 tou2]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: In high heels, one can walk only slowly. James II of England (zh) is wearing high heels (夂) inside the space station's living room (Ø3). He's not only walking slowly (夂), he even slips on a banana (丿)! He's lucky to land on a boxing glove (又) though.
see 蘿蔔|萝卜[luo2 bo5]

Characters with 处 as component

fault / to blame / to punish / calamity / misfortune
surname Zan

Words with 处

to sentence / to condemn
place / destination
peaceful coexistence of nations, societies etc
original spot / previous place / where it was before
Zhou Chu (236-297), Jin dynasty general
Zhou Enlai's Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence / 1954 Panchsheel series of agreements between PRC and India
to parse / analysis processing / to analyze and treat
ubiquitous / commonplace / found everywhere
(literary) to handle / to treat
(literary) dwelling / residence / (Tw) regional office of a company
timely handling / a stitch in time
timely handling doubles the effect and halves the effort / the right approach saves effort and leads to better results / a stitch in time saves nine
positive point / merit / redeeming quality

Sentences with 处

dào
chù
ji̅n
bì
hui̅
huáng
 
 
biàn
dì
qí
hua̅
yì
cǎo