variant of 爾|尔[er3]
thus / so / like that / you / thou

= + : Mnemonic symbol derived from the components: a peace dove. Albert Einstein (Ø) wants to send a message of peace to earth from the space station's living room (Ø3). He wanted to give a dove (尔) a daisy (小) so that it can bring it to earth, but the dove is late! Albert has no choice but to give it to a passing crane (⺈) instead. Thus, the crane flies to earth with the daisy in his beak, just like a peace dove.

尔 character breakdown

small / tiny / few / young

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.

Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).
Character component without intrinsic meaning

I think this looks like a crane; to the left is its wing, and to the right its head.

Characters with 尔 as component

nihonium (chemistry)
variant of 璽|玺 ruler's seal

Words with 尔

Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland
Voltaire (1694-1778), Enlightenment philosopher
Dalton (name) / John Dalton (1766-1844), British scientist who contributed to atomic theory
Volvo (Swedish car company)
Winston Churchill (1874-1965), UK politican and prime minister 1940-1945 and 1951-1955 / surname Churchill
Charles Grey (1764-1845), prime minister of the United Kingdom 1830-34
Bern, capital of Switzerland
Nurhaci (1559-1626), founder and first Khan of the Manchu Later Jin dynasty 後金|后金[Hou4 Jin1] (from 1616)
Michael Jordan (1963-) US basketball player
Mars (Roman God of War)
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓明園|圆明园 in 1860 / Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), who stole the Parthenon Marbles in 1801-1810
Berber people of North Africa
the Palace of Versailles, France

Sentences with 尔