de = d + e5
(equivalent to 的 as possessive particle)
background / bottom / base / end (of the month, year etc) / remnants / (math.) radix / base

= 广 + : The space station's old concrete foundation has been broken up, and Dorothy Gale wants to send the remnants of the foundation back to the base on earth using parachutes.

底 character breakdown

"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc
surname Guang

广 = + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.
wide / numerous / to spread

广 = + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.
name of an ancient tribe
foundation / on the whole

= + : Dorothy Gale pulled a petal leaf out of the space station concrete foundation. Christopher MacLeod explains her that it was a special petal leaf, and that Dorothy is destined to be the king of England now that she pulled it out.

Characters with 底 as component

stibene

Words with 底

finally / in the end / when all is said and done / after all / to the end / to the last
to dig up roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
training in the basic skills / knowledge of the fundamentals
to break even / to guarantee a minimum (salary etc)
to reveal / to expose
family heirloom / most precious family possession / person's secrets / one's best performance
Oedipus, legendary king of Thebes who killed his father and married his mother
Thucydides (c. 455 - c. 400 BC), Greek historian, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides trap (theory that war results when a dominant established power fears the rise of a rival power)

Sentences with 底

底 currently does not appear in any sentence.