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

exotic / foreign
different place / abroad
unpleasant odor
extraordinary splendor
different mouths, same voice / to speak in unison (idiom)
dissident / alien / outsider / non-self / others
foreign lands and places (idiom); living as expatriate
to shift / to alter / unusual change / abnormal move
isoalloxazine (name of organic chemical)
extraordinary image
exoticism / local color / exotic
eccentric / unusual person / talented individual
long-distance romance / long-distance relationship
not the usual type / atypical / heterotype
variant spelling of the same Chinese word, e.g. 筆劃|笔划[bi3 hua4] and 筆畫|笔画[bi3 hua4] / exact synonym and homonym written with different characters
isoleucine (Ile), an essential amino acid
catabolism (biology) / metabolic breaking down and waste disposal / dissimilation
(of twins) fraternal / dizygotic

Sentences with 异

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