band / belt / girdle / ribbon / tire / area / zone / region / CL:條|条[tiao2] / to wear / to carry / to take along / to bear (i.e. to have) / to lead / to bring / to look after / to raise

= + + : Don Quixote purchased thirty cooking tops in the airplane's bathroom to build new armor out of them. Now the question is: how does he get them home? Finally he has a good idea: He spreads out a towel on the floor, stacks the thirty cooking tops as a pyramid and pulls the towel with a belt. It works! This way he can bring them back to his place.

带 character breakdown

"cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14), occurring in 軍|军[jun1], 冠[guan1] etc, known as 禿寶蓋|秃宝盖[tu1 bao3 gai4] or 平寶蓋|平宝盖[ping2 bao3 gai4]

Mnemonic symbol: 冖 shall be represented by a saucepan lid. Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to use the bathroom in the space station (Ø4), but the door is broken! She tries to cover herself with a saucepan lid (冖) instead.
thirty

= + : Thirty is a square pyramidal number, that is you can built a pyramid with a square base (of four times four items in that layer) out of fourty things.

= + : Just as Socrates is using the ashram's bathroom the water of the river is swelling so much that he will have to swim unless he uses a boat or something similar. Socrates thinks that this is the perfect opportunity to try out a model he had in mind for a long time. With thirty flutes he builds an inverted pyramid and yes, it floats!
towel / general purpose cloth / women's headcovering (old) / Kangxi radical 50

= + : Joan of Arc has smuggled a dinosaur bone out of the encampment. To hide it, she covered it in maps and towels.

Characters with 带 as component

sluggish

= + + + : James II of England (zh) has stacked thirty (卅) cooking tops (冖) as a pyramid on top of a towel (巾) on the floor of the space station bathroom (Ø4), and sluggishly (滞) pulls the towel with a belt (带). He soaks the towel in water from a bottle of water (氵) to make it slide more easily.

Words with 带

seat belt / safety belt
take-out (fast food) / (outer part of) tire / as well / besides / into the bargain / outer zone
to carry within it / to be mixed in / to slip sth in / to intersperse / (hydrology etc) to entrain / to smuggle / notes smuggled into an exam
official class / intellectual class (idiom)
in hemp cloth and with a leather belt / poorly dressed
to take along with one
to close the door (when going through it)
erhua variant of 帶|带[dai4]
mixed fraction / mixed number (i.e. with an integer part and a fraction part, e.g. four and three quarters) / see also: improper fraction 假分數|假分数[jia3 fen1 shu4] and proper fraction 真分數|真分数[zhen1 fen1 shu4]
to take along with one
to lead astray
to look after a baby; to take care of a young child
(bird species of China) Asian paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi)
asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter

Sentences with 带

kuài
kuài
dài
ǎn
qián
qù