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

the end of the year / year-end
flat bottomed / low heeled
Hippocrates (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC), Greek physician, father of Western medicine
Gangdisê mountain range in southwest Tibet
the Bastille (Paris)
Herodium (town in biblical Judea)
lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
Nicodemus, prominent Jew of the time of Christ, mentioned in the Gospel of John
Mt Gangdisê (6656m) in southwest Tibet, revered by Tibetans as the center of the universe

Sentences with 底

底 currently does not appear in any sentence.