dust / dirt / earth

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) enters the encampment ((e)n2) as a vicious dust storm (尘) is blowing. He breathes so much dirt (土) that he thinks the dirt got even into his heart (小).

尘 character breakdown

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.
small / tiny / few / young

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.

Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).

Characters with 尘 as component

尘 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 尘

lit. trailing dust / fig. sb's footsteps / course in life
smoke and dust / air pollution
the world of mortals (Buddhism) / human society / worldly affairs
dust / airborne powder / solid particulate matter
lit. to see only the other rider's dust and have no hope of catching up (idiom) / to be far inferior
airborne sand and dust
clamor raises the dust (idiom); a tremendous clamor / to raise a tremendous stink
to live an exhausting journey
dust (floating in the air or settled on a surface) / large amount of airborne sand and dust, such as during a sandstorm
see 一塵不染|一尘不染[yi1 chen2 bu4 ran3]
dust / (Buddhism) minutest particle of matter
horsetail whisk / duster
to follow in other people's footsteps
to wash off dust
lit. with a face full of dust / showing the hardships of travel (idiom)
to see through the world of mortals (idiom, of Buddhist monk) / disillusioned with human society / to reject the world for a monastic life
speck of dust / fine dust

Sentences with 尘

尘 currently does not appear in any sentence.