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

variant of 莊|庄[zhuang1]
grave / tomb / CL:座[zuo4] / embankment / mound / ancient book

= + : Frankenstein's Monster (f) is digging its own grave (坟) right in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2). While digging the grave it piles up a lot of dirt (土) which forms a small mound. Frankenstein's Monster plans to use a thick book (文) as a tombstone.
equal / even / all / uniform

= + : Zeus (ju) is furious! In front of the encampment ((e)n1) a truck drove through a puddle next to him and now his new uniform (匀) is covered in dirt (土). His uniform (匀) is covered very uniformly (均), though. He throws dirt at all (均) other palace guards to make their appearance uniform again.
earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:片[pian4]

= + : Dorothy Gale (di) hates the cleanliness of the space station, so she used an excavator (也) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) to dig a pile of dirt (土) out of the ground (地) for a mud bath.
de = d + e5
-ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
bad / spoiled / broken / to break down / (suffix) to the utmost

= + : In the airplane's bathroom, there is a clear sign that it is forbidden to enter the room with dirty feet. Helga Horse is quite spoiled though, so she enters right after she went to the muddy stables and spreads dirt all around.
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).
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).
a plain / ping, unit of area equal to approx. 3.3058 square meters (used in Japan and Taiwan)

= + : Pocahontas (pi) wants to recreate the plains (坪) of her home in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) to build a brand new Indian graveyard. To this end she layers the plain sheet by sheet through roasting dirt (土) in a pan (平) until it is flat (平).
used in 垃圾[la1 ji1] / Taiwan pr. [le4]

= + : Lancelot (l) unearthed some radioactive waste (垃) in front of the ashram (a1). He puts it into a vase (立) and closes the vase by filling it up with earth (土). Then he shoots it into space - someone up there will surely know what to do with it.
border / place / condition / boundary / circumstances / territory

= + : Joan of Arc wants to start her own kingdom and starts with claiming her own territory in the engine's bathroom. She created some walls out of mud but because she has no money to pay, she has a very inexpensive border control consisting of Jacks in their boxes.

Words with 土

to bury / buried / interred
Sino-Turkish
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)
buried and at rest (idiom); Resquiescat in pacem (RIP)
mortar / concrete / cement
(of a stranger) not accustomed to the climate of a new place / not acclimatized

Sentences with 土

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