thistle / common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus) / bitter (taste) / cruel / flowering grass in profusion

荼 character breakdown

surname Yu
(archaic) I / me / variant of 餘|余[yu2], surplus
grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 zi4 tou2 r5]

Artificial lawn. The King of Chu burns artificial lawn in the aorta.
extra / surplus / remaining / remainder after division / (following numerical value) or more / in excess of (some number) / residue (math.) / after / I / me

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 余车 means "emperor's carriage", and I'll thus represent 余 with a sedan chair. In the space station's kitchen (Ø2), Yu the Great (yu) finally has the chance to feel like an emperor. In zero gravity she doesn't need anyone to carry the sedan chair (余) she's sitting on. She set up two sewage pipes (朩) right opposite of each other, so as soon as she shoots out of one she enters the other and is redirected to the first one. In this way she can ride her sedan chair in an infinite loop. An emperor always wears a headpiece, so she puts on a pointed cap (亼).

Characters with 荼 as component

荼 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 荼

like wildfire (idiom) / unstoppable
torment / cruelty / great suffering
(Buddhism) (loanword from Sanskrit) mandala
to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people
flowering autumn grass, fine net (idiom); fig. abundant and exacting punishments prescribed by law
Dravidian (general term for South Indian people and languages)

Sentences with 荼

荼 currently does not appear in any sentence.