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

layer of soil / ground level
mound / hillock
land reform / same as 土地改革[tu3 di4 gai3 ge2]
Tu or White Mongol ethnic group of Qinghai
Tuku town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县[Yun2 lin2 xian4], Taiwan
Turkmenistan / Republic of Turkmenistan, former Soviet republic adjoining Iran
pedology (soil study)
earth dam / dam of earth and rocks (as opposed to waterproof dam of clay or concrete)
Tujia ethnic group of Hunan
Tuku town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县[Yun2 lin2 xian4], Taiwan

Sentences with 土

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