dust / dirt / earth

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) enters the encampment ((e)n2) as a vicious dust storm (尘) is blowing. He breathes so much dirt (土) that he thinks the dirt got even into his heart (小).

尘 character breakdown

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.
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).

Characters with 尘 as component

尘 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 尘

vacuum cleaner / dust catcher
this mortal life / the mundane world
"Red Poppies", novel by 阿來|阿来[A1 lai2]
lit. the dust has settled (idiom) / fig. to get sorted out / to be finalized
untainted by even a speck of dust (idiom); selfless and incorruptible / spotless
covered in dust / dusty / lying unused for a long time
the past / impurity contracted previously (in the sentient world) (Buddhism)
mundane world (in religious context) / this mortal coil
(idiom) to lead the pack by a wide margin; to leave one's competitors trailing behind in one's dust
the dust of a long journey
hubbub / hustle and bustle
cloud of dust / smog

Sentences with 尘

尘 currently does not appear in any sentence.