order / sequence / preface

= + 广 : Due to an emergency Xu Xian (xu) and Zai Yu (予) both have to leave the space station from the bathroom (Ø4) and parachute (广) back to earth. They just cannot decide on the sequence (序) of who's going first.

序 character breakdown

(archaic) I / me
to give

= + + + : Mnemonic symbol: Confucius's disciple 宰予 who used to sleep during Confucuis's lectures.

Yu the Great is giving a lecture in the space station, but her only listener Zai Yu fell asleep right at the start. First, Yu the Great tried to poke him with her finger. No reaction. Then she hit him with a crowbar. Again, no reaction. Finally, Yu the Great got so angry that she was close to hitting Zai Yu with two sickles.
"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc
surname Guang

广 = + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.
wide / numerous / to spread

广 = + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.
(literary) to give

Characters with 序 as component

earthern goblet stand also known as 反坫[fan3 dian4] (old) / old variant of 序

Words with 序

everything clear and in good order (idiom); neat and tidy
(astronomy) main sequence
(astronomy) main-sequence star
reverse order / inverted order
order of priority / sequential order
ascending order

Sentences with 序

序 currently does not appear in any sentence.