variant of 爾|尔[er3]
thus / so / like that / you / thou

= + : Mnemonic symbol derived from the components: a peace dove. Albert Einstein (Ø) wants to send a message of peace to earth from the space station's living room (Ø3). He wanted to give a dove (尔) a daisy (小) so that it can bring it to earth, but the dove is late! Albert has no choice but to give it to a passing crane (⺈) instead. Thus, the crane flies to earth with the daisy in his beak, just like a peace dove.

尔 character breakdown

small / tiny / few / young

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.

Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).
Character component without intrinsic meaning

I think this looks like a crane; to the left is its wing, and to the right its head.

Characters with 尔 as component

nihonium (chemistry)
variant of 璽|玺 ruler's seal

Words with 尔

Karl Marx (1818-1883), German socialist philosopher, political activist and founder of Marxism
Calgary, largest city of Alberta, Canada
Cape Canaveral, Florida, home of Kennedy space center 肯尼迪航天中心[Ken3 ni2 di2 Hang2 tian1 Zhong1 xin1]
El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean
Mt Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus Mountains
Bhopal, capital of central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh 中央邦[Zhong1 yang1 bang1]
Hamid Karzai (1957-), Afghan politician, president 2004-2014
Casimir effect (attraction between two parallel metal plates due to quantum mechanical vacuum effects)

Sentences with 尔