Mnemonic comic for

Translation

tǔ = tu + Ø3: earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

Mnemonic

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.

All translations for 土

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.

土 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
ten / 10

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).

Characters with 土 as component

stingy

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: stingray.

The stingy stingray (啬) and the mean crocodile (丷) want to return (回) to the river using the elevator's toilet (e4), but lots of dirt (土) is blocking their way. They ask the elevator's boss Socrates (s) for help, but he doesn't make his hands dirty so he starts a boring monologue about living as an expat. As the stingray and the crocodile realize he won't help them they start crying out loudly.
variant of 牆|墙[qiang2], wall

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) and the stingray (啬) got married and took over the anglepod to start a new kingdom. In the kitchen (ang2) they start building their city wall (墙) out of lots of dirt (土). They also add lots of thorns to make the wall as stingy (墙) as possible.
wall / CL:面[mian4],堵[du3]

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) and the stingray (啬) got married and took over the anglepod to start a new kingdom. In the kitchen (ang2) they start building their city wall (墙) out of lots of dirt (土). They also add lots of thorns to make the wall as stingy (墙) as possible.
strong / solid / firm / unyielding / resolute

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) built a strong (坚) and sturdy (坚) burrow out of dirt (土) in front of the anthill (an1). She even equipped it with a strong (坚) radio (収) to keep contact with her troops.
hole / pit / tunnel / to defraud

= + : Karl Marx (k) finds out that turtleneck sweaters (亢) are completely out of fashion now, so in front of the engine ((e)ng1) he digs a deep pit (坑), throws the sweater inside and fills the pit with earth (土).
variant of 坑[keng1] / pit / hole

= + : Karl Marx (k) finds out that turtleneck sweaters (亢) are completely out of fashion now, so in front of the engine ((e)ng1) he digs a deep pit (坑), throws the sweater inside and fills the pit with earth (土).
variant of 墣, clod or lump of earth

= + : In the space station's kitchen (Ø2) Petra Penguin (pu) is beating a pile of dirt (土) with a voodoo staff (卜) to give it some form and make it into a round lump of earth (圤).
ruins / (literary) village / variant of 圩[xu1] / country fair

= + : Xu Xian (xu) is taking care of the ruins (墟) of the Mir in front of the space station (Ø1). He uses a black hole (虚) to vacuum all the space dirt (土) which accumulated over time.
wall / rampart

= + : Brunhilde (bi) was checking out the safety of the space station and found that the bathroom (Ø4) is a weak spot in the defence line if there should be any attacker. Thus, she decided to build a rampart (壁). She cannot do it alone though, so she asked the jade dragon (辟) for help. Together, they build the rampart out of earth (土). In this way, they will be able to fend off (辟) any intruder.
to model (a figure) in clay

= + : Susan Saint Bernard (su) is afraid of a spring tide in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) since it's the first day of the lunar month (朔), so she models (塑) a Hauke Haien out of clay (土) to help her build a dike.
clay / old variant of 僅|仅[jin3] / violet (plant)

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) is throwing violet (堇) clay (堇) and dirt (土) at the king's cow hide (革) in the encampment ((e)n3).
pagoda / tower / minaret / stupa (abbr. loanword from Sanskrit tapo) / CL:座[zuo4]

= + : Tecumseh (t) opened a minaret (塔) in the ashram (a3). Because he is too lazy to sing himself all day, he set up an answering machine (荅) to play the prayers and built a funnel out of clay (土) for better sound.
old variant of 塔[ta3]

= + : Tecumseh (t) opened a minaret (塔) in the ashram (a3). Because he is too lazy to sing himself all day, he set up an answering machine (荅) to play the prayers and built a funnel out of clay (土) for better sound.

Words with 土

to bury / buried / interred
lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom) / fig. to regroup and come back even stronger / to make a comeback
to break ground (prior to building sth) / to start building
frozen earth / permafrost / tundra
Sino-Turkish
to dig up / to appear in an excavation / unearthed / to come up out of the ground
Khartoum, capital of Sudan
buried and at rest (idiom); Resquiescat in pacem (RIP)
mortar / concrete / cement
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
permafrost / tundra / layer of frozen soil
Yinjiang Tujia and Hmong autonomous county in Tongren prefecture 銅仁地區|铜仁地区[Tong2 ren2 di4 qu1], Guizhou
(neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)
(of a stranger) not accustomed to the climate of a new place / not acclimatized
aridisol (soil taxonomy)
dry-fried potato slices (Chinese dish)
Huzhu Tuzu Autonomous County in Haidong prefecture 海東地區|海东地区[Hai3 dong1 di4 qu1], Qinghai
anthrosol (soil taxonomy)

Sentences with 土

xiǎo
shén
shì
běn
yuán
tǔ
di
 
 
lái
zhè
r
cì
hòu
dà
shèng