to execute (a plan) / to grasp

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 执照, "license". James II of England (zh) is being held up at the security check in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). They hold a bag of painkillers (丸) they found with a toy claw (扌) in front of him and they ask him to show his drug license (执).

執 character breakdown

ball / pellet / pill

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bag of painkillers.

Willy Walrus feels like floating on cloud nine after he took too many painkillers. Floating on cloud nine just inside the anthill's kitchen he covers himself with a large petal leaf and just wants to sleep.
trusted / intimate / (of the emperor) to visit / variant of 幸[xing4]

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a fortune cookie.

Marie Curie (xi) got a job as the host in a game show in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). Her guest is a crocodile with mean eyes (丷), and the crocodile has to choose one of three doors. He chooses one door, and Marie opens another one, behind which is just a pile of dirt (土). The whole audience then tells him to change his decision to increase his chance of winning to 50%, but he doesn't. Marie Curie then opens his doors and luckily (幸) it was the right one: behind it is the fortune cookie (幸). The crocodile's prize is a bag of dried fruits (干).
surname Xing

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a fortune cookie.

Marie Curie (xi) got a job as the host in a game show in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). Her guest is a crocodile with mean eyes (丷), and the crocodile has to choose one of three doors. He chooses one door, and Marie opens another one, behind which is just a pile of dirt (土). The whole audience then tells him to change his decision to increase his chance of winning to 50%, but he doesn't. Marie Curie then opens his doors and luckily (幸) it was the right one: behind it is the fortune cookie (幸). The crocodile's prize is a bag of dried fruits (干).
fortunate / lucky

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a fortune cookie.

Marie Curie (xi) got a job as the host in a game show in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). Her guest is a crocodile with mean eyes (丷), and the crocodile has to choose one of three doors. He chooses one door, and Marie opens another one, behind which is just a pile of dirt (土). The whole audience then tells him to change his decision to increase his chance of winning to 50%, but he doesn't. Marie Curie then opens his doors and luckily (幸) it was the right one: behind it is the fortune cookie (幸). The crocodile's prize is a bag of dried fruits (干).

Characters with 執 as component

pad / cushion / mat / to pad out / to fill a gap / to pay for sb / to advance (money)

= + : Dorothy Gale (di) built an air cushion (垫) vehicle out of dirt (土) in the anthill's bathroom (an4) and happily rides it in circles, until a police officer appears and asks for her license (执).
surname Zhi
sincere

= + : James II of England (zh) is a sincere (挚) baseball fan and wants to take his hobby to the next level, so he gets a very expensive, officially licensed (执) baseball glove (手). The license (执) is still attached to the glove (手) as he tries it on for the first time in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
to hibernate
gifts to superiors
fierce / brutal / bird of prey
to connect / to tie up
heavy horse / horse unable to move because of twisted leg / plodding

Words with 執

to dispute / to disagree / to argue opinionatedly / to wrangle
to obstinately persist in going about things the wrong way (idiom)
to be obsessive / to persist obstinately
(Han dynasty) official in command of an army responsible for maintaining law and order in the capital
(of an airline) to run a flight
to persist / to continue upholding / to persevere / to stick to sth / stubborn
(law) judgement defaulter (person who has failed to fulfill obligations set forth in a written court judgement, such as paying compensation to sb, despite having the means to do so) / debt dodger
rigid / inflexible
to choose what is good and hold fast to it (idiom)
file execution / executable file
deferred death sentence / abbr. to 死緩|死缓[si3 huan3]
(literary) father's friends (of the same generation)
person of one's father's generation
to serve (a sentence) outside prison (law)
(Tw) (computing) thread

Sentences with 執

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