(long) time / (long) duration of time

= + : Mnemonic symbol: hourglass.

= + : Joan of Arc and the elephant are visiting the outhouse, and they have been looking at the Mona Lisa for hours. Impatiently, Joan of Arc looks at her hourglass telling them that they have been standing there like that for three and a half hours, so she's poking the elephant with a finger to tell him to move on.

久 character breakdown

archaic variant of 包[bao1]

= 丿 + : 勹 looks like an elephant: 丿 looks like the edge of the ear and ㇆ looks like the head and trunk.

Beelzebub (b) rides an elephant in front of the aorta (ao1), turning the soil with a plow (㇆). Lots of bananas (丿) are revealed in the turned earth.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

This one looks like a finger.

Characters with 久 as component

classifier for fields / unit of area equal to one fifteenth of a hectare

= + : When Malte Monkey (mu) was tilling his field (田) in the space station he lost his beret (亠) and now it must be buried under the earth. He'll have to search the whole field. Too bad for him that he has a whole hectare (亩) to search.
old variant of 畝|亩[mu3]

= + : When Malte Monkey (mu) was tilling his field (田) in the space station he lost his beret (亠) and now it must be buried under the earth. He'll have to search the whole field. Too bad for him that he has a whole hectare (亩) to search.
moxibustion (TCM)
black jade / nine (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
chronic disease / guilt / remorse
to lead

Words with 久

not long (after) / before too long / soon / soon after
a long period of separation
to meet again after a long period of separation
lit. I've admired you for a long time (honorific). / I've been looking forward to meeting you. / It's an honor to meet you at last.
I've admired your reputation for a long time (idiom); I've been looking forward to meeting you. / It's an honor to meet you at last.
(idiom) I've admired your reputation for a long time; it's an honor to meet you at last
a very long time (etymology: in mathematics, n represents an arbitrarily large number)
I have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time (idiom)
Kubo (Japanese surname)
to fail to return a borrowed item

Sentences with 久

zhǐ zhi̅
shì
yǎng
zài
tia̅n
shǎng shàng
rì
zǐ zi
jiǔ
le liǎo liào
yòu
ya̅o yào
she̅ng
shì
But I think the monkey will cause more trouble once he gets used to life in Heaven.