already / to stop / then / afterwards

= + + : Kinda looks like a dredger. Maud Younger wants to dig a tunnel from the space station to earth, so she already used a dredger to dig up the walls just inside the space station. Unfortunately there are a lot of flutes built into the wall, and the dredger is of no use here, so she had to stop. Instead she then has to use a shovel and a sickle to scratch the flutes free and lever them out afterwards.

已 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.
component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 毫[hao2] / archaic variant of 乙[yi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a shovel (乚).

Remember it by imagining Maud Younger (y) digging her own grave with a shovel in the ashram's bathroom (a4).
Character component without intrinsic meaning

A sickle.

Characters with 已 as component

已 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 已

that's all / just this and nothing more
to die (when one's predestined life span is up)
already a long time
to do sth under oath (idiom)
married, with one or more children
known (to science)
that's all; just this and nothing more

Sentences with 已

qǐ
zòu
wàn
suì
 
 
su̅n
wù
ko̅ng
xiàn
yǐ
xua̅n
dào