ten / 10

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).

十 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Gitta Giraffe (gu-) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's living room ((e)n3).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.

Characters with 十 as component

variant of 乾[qian2]
decagram (old) / single-character equivalent of 十克[shi2 ke4]
decagram (old) (single-character equivalent of 十克[shi2 ke4])
old variant of 世[shi4]
black / police runners, from the black clothes formerly worn by them
old variant of 協|协[xie2]
decawatt (old) / pr. [shi2 wa3] / single-character equivalent of 十瓦[shi2 wa3]
dm

Words with 十

lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
ten lines at a glance (idiom) / to read very rapidly
bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy
one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / short attention span
one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp / sporadic effort / lack of sticking power / short attention span
once bitten by a snake, ten years in fear of a well rope / once bitten, twice shy (idiom)
Group of 77, loose alliance of developing countries, founded in 1964
the seventies / the 1970s
news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom) / an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)

Sentences with 十

wǒ
men
dà
wáng
zǎo
fe̅i
chu̅
shí
wàn
ba̅
qia̅n
lǐ
le