to press / to push down / to keep under (control) / pressure

= + + : Maud Younger once heard that if you apply enough pressure, one can make diamonds out of dirt. In front of the ashram, she tries this out: She puts some dirt into a chocolate factory, applies as much pressure as she can, but all that comes out are petal leaves.
see 壓根兒|压根儿[ya4 gen1 r5]

压 character breakdown

"dot" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 3) / see also 點|点[dian3]

This character shall be represented by a petal (丶) when appearing in other characters.

Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is napping in the space station's living room (Ø3) and hugging a petal (丶).
"cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 27), occurring in 原, 历, 压 etc
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Tommy Turtle (tu) wants to fix a cross (十) on a flute (一) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He uses dust and clay (土) to hold them together.
factory / yard / depot / workhouse / works / (industrial) plant

Mnemonic symbol: a chocolate factory. Charlie Chaplin (ch) is overjoyed to see that in the anglepod's living room (ang3), a small chocolate factory (厂) is for sale. He buys it, shaves his mustache, grows his hair a bit and renames himself to Willy Wonka to live in the chocolate factory.

Characters with 压 as component

压 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 压

to overwhelm / to overpower / overwhelming
to lower (one's voice)
to cause sth to collapse under the weight / (fig.) to overwhelm
to depress prices
(jocular) to be under great pressure (a pun on 亞歷山大|亚历山大[Ya4 li4 shan1 da4])
to crush and bury
to hold the attention of an audience / to serve as the finale to a show
erhua variant of 壓壓腳|压压脚[ya1 ya5 jiao3]
to compress / to compact
variant of 押寶|押宝[ya1 bao3]
to squash / to crush flat
to squeeze out / to extrude
to compel sb to obey / to force into submission / to subjugate
acrylic (loanword) / see also 亞克力|亚克力[ya4 ke4 li4]
to suppress / to inhibit / to stifle

Sentences with 压

yù
dì
lǎo
ér
 
 
nǐ
sa̅n
fa̅n
liǎng
cì
qi̅
ya̅
ǎn
lǎo
su̅n