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

Toulon (city in France)
temperature of the soil
(US) Department of Homeland Security
Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR), formed in 1998
(coll.) commie (derog., used by the KMT) / CCP, the party of the people (used by CCP supporters) / pro-Beijing camp (HK) / (abbr.) Communist Party of Turkey / Communist Party of Turkmenistan
old-fashioned / extremely kitsch
earthenware
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Sentences with 土

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