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

abbr. for China

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a flowery bouquet.

= + : Just inside the ashram's kitchen, Helga Horse wants to create a piece of art. She attached a lot of flowery bouquets to a cross, and wants to fuse the cross by connecting it to a transformer and thus heating it up until it melts and merges with the bouquets.
magnificent / splendid / flowery

= + : Just inside the ashram's kitchen, Helga Horse wants to create a piece of art. She attached a lot of flowery bouquets to a cross, and wants to fuse the cross by connecting it to a transformer and thus heating it up until it melts and merges with the bouquets.

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a flowery bouquet.
Mt Hua 華山|华山 in Shaanxi / surname Hua
old variant of 花[hua1] / flower
the whole of / to finish / to complete / complete / full / finished

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Picasso.

Picasso (毕) is just about to finish (毕) his latest piece of art. He painted Brunhilde (bi) riding a giant cross (十) wearing a bikini (比) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
surname Bi

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Picasso.

Picasso (毕) is just about to finish (毕) his latest piece of art. He painted Brunhilde (bi) riding a giant cross (十) wearing a bikini (比) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).
rate / frequency
to lead / to command / rash / hasty / frank / straightforward / generally / usually

= + + : Sheldon Shrimp (shu) is surprised by a stream of lava (玄) rushing into the airplane's bathroom (ai4). He acts quickly (率) and jumps on a huge cross (十) to save himself. Then he continues to lead (率) the stream of lava around the cross by placing popsicles (冫) on the floor in just the right way, so that the lava passes his cross without melting it. He notices that the heat flow to either side of the cross corresponds to the golden ratio (率).
surname Suo / abbr. for 索馬里|索马里[Suo3 ma3 li3], Somalia

= + + : Somebody destroyed Susan Saint Bernards (su) web in the observatory (o3) and as a revenge Susan Saint Bernard put all the castle's food in a container, put a cooking top on it (冖) and then sealed it with a silken scarf (糸). Then she attached a cross (十) to be used as hook and hang the package right under the ceiling using a large rope (索). Everyone is sorry and asks (索) her to give the food back, but Susan Saint Bernard is still quite angry.
to search / to demand / to ask / to exact / large rope / isolated

= + + : Somebody destroyed Susan Saint Bernards (su) web in the observatory (o3) and as a revenge Susan Saint Bernard put all the castle's food in a container, put a cooking top on it (冖) and then sealed it with a silken scarf (糸). Then she attached a cross (十) to be used as hook and hang the package right under the ceiling using a large rope (索). Everyone is sorry and asks (索) her to give the food back, but Susan Saint Bernard is still quite angry.
to calculate / to compute / to count / to regard as important / to plan / ruse / meter / gauge

= + : Joan of Arc inspects an advertising column in the space station's bathroom. On it there is an intricate pattern of crosses. With an calculator she tries to calculate the overall area the crosses take on the advertising column.
surname Ji

= + : Joan of Arc inspects an advertising column in the space station's bathroom. On it there is an intricate pattern of crosses. With an calculator she tries to calculate the overall area the crosses take on the advertising column.

Words with 十

lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
ten lines at a glance (idiom) / to read very rapidly
bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy
one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / short attention span
one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / lack of sticking power / short attention span
once bitten by a snake, ten years in fear of a well rope / once bitten, twice shy (idiom)
Group of 77, loose alliance of developing countries, founded in 1964
the seventies / the 1970s
news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom) / an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)

Sentences with 十

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