main hall / front courtyard / law court

= 广 + : Mother Teresa (ti) wants to one-up her palace courtyard (廷) for the cat-o-nine tails in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2). She upgrades it to the main hall (庭) by covering the walled courtyard with a parachute (广) as canopy.

庭 character breakdown

"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc
surname Guang

广 = + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.
wide / numerous / to spread

广 = + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.
palace courtyard

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) builds her own private courtyard (廷) out of four go-boards (廴) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2). To be specific, she builds the courtyard for her cat o' nine tails (壬).

Characters with 庭 as component

庭 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 庭

family / household / CL:戶|户[hu4],個|个[ge4]
to begin a (judicial) court session
to adjourn (law)
front yard as busy as a marketplace (idiom) / a place with many visitors
see 門庭若市|门庭若市[men2 ting2 ruo4 shi4]
The courtyard is deserted, you can net sparrows at the door (idiom); completely deserted
Clarence Martin Wilbur (1908-1997), US Sinologist and Professor of Columbia University
Huang Tingjian (1045-1105), Song poet and calligrapher
Huangting Jing, one of the primary scriptures of Daoism

Sentences with 庭

nà
su̅n
wù
ko̅ng
shì
xià
jiè
xia̅n
rén
 
 
bù
dǒng
tia̅n
tíng
lǐ
jié