different / other / hetero- / unusual / strange / surprising / to distinguish / to separate / to discriminate

= + : Maud Younger sees a wyvern in the space station's bathroom and thinks it's soo strange that there's a wyvern in the space station. But after all, it's just the lab snake which ate a double axe.

= + : Maud Younger (y) has been sent off to help the communist (共) tending the field (田) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). She proves very helpful as her secret strange super power (mnemonic symbol for 異), xray vision, helps her see whether the potatoes are ready or not.

异 character breakdown

self / oneself / sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / sixth in order / letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / hexa

This character looks like a butcher's hook. In the space station, Joan of Arc wants to conduct an experiment about a sixth order chaotic pendulum. First she hooks a butcher's hook to a sickle, then sticks the sickle's end into a flute, and finally hooks the handle of a shovel into the last hole of the flute. She then swings the chaotic pendulum to observe its behaviour.
6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake / ancient Chinese compass point: 150°

= + : A snake. Socrates is terribly afraid of a snake in the space station's bathroom, and he tries to defend himself with a shovel. However the snake already ate a mandarin, and Sokrates is next.
hands joined

= 丿 + + : Handcuffs. Gitta Giraffe is sitting inside of the engine, her hands tied up with handcuffs. There's a flute as horizontal bar, and attached to either side are a banana and a dinosaur bone, so that she cannot slide off the chain.

Characters with 异 as component

异 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 异

exceptionally good / excellent / clearly outstanding / distinctive / peculiar / unique
to seek common ground, putting differences aside (idiom)
rare / precious and odd
to bring in the new (idiom); new directions, different creation
difference / discrepancy
entirely different / quite separate
specific / specificity / idiosyncrasy
special choice / special reserve
a stranger in a strange land (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維|王维[Wang2 Wei2])
to project singular splendor or radiance / to perform brilliantly
marvelous / magnificent
amazed / astonished / deeply troubled
Ibuprofen or Nurofen / nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), trade names Advil, Motrin, Nuprin etc, used as analgesic and antipyretic, e.g. for arthritis sufferers / also called 布洛芬
(chemistry) isopropylbenzene C9H12 (aka cumene)
isopropanol / isopropyl alcohol C3H8O
sth else / a separate matter / not the same thing / with different jobs (not colleagues) / a remarkable thing / sth special / an odd thing / sth strange or incomprehensible
Jirisan or Mount Chiri, mountain in the south of South Korea
to start on sth new and different (idiom); to display originality
to start on sth new and different (idiom); to display originality

Sentences with 异

dào
chù
ji̅n
bì
hui̅
huáng
 
 
biàn
dì
qí
hua̅
yì
cǎo