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.

土 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.
ten / 10

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).

Characters with 土 as component

variant of 婿[xu4]
land on water edge or under wall
clay / shop
variant of 罈|坛[tan2]
mound / embankment / the earthen altar to the god of the soil
used in 峚山[Mi4 Shan1]
old variant of 在[zai4]
old variant of 灶[zao4]
used in 茳芏[jiang1 du4] / Taiwan pr. [tu3]
variant of 走[zou3]
dangerous

Words with 土

country's territory / national land
lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom) / fig. to regroup and come back even stronger / to make a comeback
to break ground (prior to building sth) / to start building
frozen earth / permafrost / tundra
to dig up / to appear in an excavation / unearthed / to come up out of the ground
Khartoum, capital of Sudan
Yinjiang Tujia and Hmong autonomous county in Tongren prefecture 銅仁地區|铜仁地区[Tong2 ren2 di4 qu1], Guizhou
permafrost / tundra / layer of frozen soil
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
(neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation

Sentences with 土

xiǎo
shén
shì
běn
yuán
tǔ
di
 
 
lái
zhè
r
cì
hòu
dà
shèng