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

easy to get along with
benefit; advantage; merit / gain; profit / also pr. [hao3 chu4]
benefit / advantage / gain / profit / also pr. [hao3 chu4] / CL:個|个[ge4]
harm / troubles / CL:個|个[ge4]
damage / harm / CL:個|个[ge4]
to be located at / to be situated in
ideal place / suitable location / merit / advantage
warehouse / temporary store / left-luggage office / cloak-room
parking lot (for bicycles)
lodging house
to deliberate and decide / to try and punish / trial and execution
to live / to reside
dwelling place / home
where it is possible to let people off, one should spare them (idiom); anyone can make mistakes, forgive them when possible
to deal with sb severely (idiom)
Foreign Affairs Office (at a university) / Foreign Affairs Department
think of the big picture, start with the little things (idiom)

Sentences with 处

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