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).

十 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.
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Gitta Giraffe (gu-) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's living room ((e)n3).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.

Characters with 十 as component

variant of 乾[qian2]
decagram (old) / single-character equivalent of 十克[shi2 ke4]
decagram (old) (single-character equivalent of 十克[shi2 ke4])
old variant of 世[shi4]
black / police runners, from the black clothes formerly worn by them
old variant of 協|协[xie2]
decawatt (old) / pr. [shi2 wa3] / single-character equivalent of 十瓦[shi2 wa3]
dm

Words with 十

pretty close / very near / about right
the one who has retreated 50 steps laughs at the one who has retreated 100 steps (idiom) / the pot calls the kettle black
adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)
Sixteen Kingdoms of Five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439)
lit. if one is fake, I shall compensate you for ten of them / fig. (of goods) 100% genuine
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 儒勒·凡爾納|儒勒·凡尔纳[Ru2 le4 · Fan2 er3 na4]
the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (I Ching or Yi Jing) 易經|易经
Five Dynasties (907-960) and Ten Kingdoms (902-979), period of political turmoil in ancient China

Sentences with 十

wǒ
men
dà
wáng
zǎo
fe̅i
chu̅
shí
wàn
ba̅
qia̅n
lǐ
le