执

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to execute (a plan); to grasp

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

A hand 扌 clutching a pebble 丸

Components 扌丸

clench · Heisig RSH #602

fingers + bottle of pills

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
城市管理行政执法局	Chéng shì Guǎn lǐ Xíng zhèng Zhí fǎ jú	City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau (PRC)
执法如山	zhí fǎ rú shān	to maintain the law as firm as a mountain (idiom); to enforce the law strictly
高层执行员	gāo céng zhí xíng yuán	senior executive
科学执政	kē xué zhí zhèng	governance based on rationality, evidence and scientific principles
执行人	zhí xíng rén	executioner (hangman); business executor
执行长	zhí xíng zhǎng	(Tw) chief executive
执行力	zhí xíng lì	ability to get things done
执政能力	zhí zhèng néng lì	governing capacity
可执行	kě zhí xíng	executable (computing)
争执不下	zhēng zhí bù xià	to quarrel endlessly
中央执行委员会	Zhōng yāng Zhí xíng Wěi yuán huì	Central Executive Committee
失信被执行人	shī xìn bèi zhí xíng rén	(law) judgement defaulter (person who has failed to fulfill obligations set forth in a wri…
回执单	huí zhí dān	receipt
执政者	zhí zhèng zhě	ruler
监外执行	jiān wài zhí xíng	to serve (a sentence) outside prison (law)
执政官	zhí zhèng guān	consul (of the Roman Republic); magistrate (chief administrator)
首席执行官	shǒu xí zhí xíng guān	chief executive officer (CEO)
执行	zhí xíng	to implement; to carry out; to execute; to run
执牛耳	zhí niú ěr	to be the acknowledged leader (from the custom of a prince holding a plate on which lay th…
执法	zhí fǎ	to enforce a law; law enforcement

These characters use 执 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
执 sound part	zhí	to execute; to grasp, to hold; to keep; to sieze, to detain
热	rè	heat, fever, zeal
势	shì	power, force; tendency, attitude
垫	diàn	cushion, mat, pad; to advance money, to pay for another
蛰	zhé	to hibernate
贽	zhì	tribute; a gift given to a superior
鸷	zhì	hawk, vulture