earth

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from a pictograph in oracle-bone script depicting a mound or patch of earth with three horizontal layers representing the ground and what lies beneath it.

Mnemonic: Three horizontal strokes stacked like layers of earth—remember the earth radical by picturing three layers of soil.

• 基jī🔊

  (bound form) base; foundation

  11 strokes

• 堵dǔ🔊

  to block up (a road, pipe etc)

  HSK 4

  11 strokes

• 堆duī🔊

  to pile up

  HSK 5

  11 strokes

• 堂táng🔊

  (main) hall

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 采cǎi🔊

  to pick

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 堕duò🔊

  to fall; to sink

  11 strokes

• 堋péng🔊

  target in archery

  11 strokes

• 域yù🔊

  field

  11 strokes

• 坚jiān🔊

  strong

  11 strokes

• 堇jǐn🔊

  clay

  11 strokes

• 㙍duō🔊

  (used in place names)

  11 strokes

• 埝niàn🔊

  earth embankment used to hold back or retain water

  11 strokes

• 埠bù🔊

  wharf

  11 strokes

• 垭yā🔊

  (dialect) strip of land between hills

  11 strokes

• 埤pí🔊

  low wall

  11 strokes

• 埦wǎn🔊

  variant of 碗[wan3]

  11 strokes

• 埧jù🔊

  diked pond

  11 strokes

• 埫tǎng🔊

  flat land

  11 strokes

• 埭dài🔊

  dam

  11 strokes

• 埯ǎn🔊

  hole in the ground to plant seeds in

  11 strokes

• 埲běng🔊

  used in 塕埲[weng3 beng3]

  11 strokes

• 埴zhí🔊

  soil with large clay content

  11 strokes

• 埵duǒ🔊

  solid earth

  11 strokes

• 埶yì🔊

  skill

  11 strokes

• 执zhí🔊

  to execute (a plan)

  11 strokes

• 埸yì🔊

  border

  11 strokes

• 培péi🔊

  to bank up with earth

  11 strokes

• 埼qí🔊

  headland

  11 strokes

• 埽sào🔊

  dike

  11 strokes

• 堀kū🔊

  cave

  11 strokes

• 堃kūn🔊

  variant of 坤[kun1] (mainly used in given names)

  11 strokes

• 堄nì🔊

  parapet

  11 strokes

• 堉yù🔊

  fertile soil

  11 strokes

• 垩è🔊

  to whitewash

  11 strokes

• 堌gù🔊

  place name

  11 strokes

• 堍tù🔊

  side of bridge

  11 strokes

• 堎líng🔊

  mound

  11 strokes

• 堐yá🔊

  (used in place names)

  11 strokes

• 堑qiàn🔊

  (bound form) moat; chasm

  11 strokes

• 埚guō🔊

  crucible

  11 strokes

• 𫮃shàn🔊

  level spot for sacrifices

  11 strokes

• 块kuài🔊

  HSK 1

  12 strokes

• 塔tǎ🔊

  old variant of 塔[ta3]

  HSK 6

  12 strokes

• 场chǎng🔊

  large place used for a specific purpose

  HSK 2

  12 strokes

• 报bào🔊

  to report; to inform; to announce

  HSK 3

  12 strokes

• 堡bǎo🔊

  (bound form) fortress; stronghold

  12 strokes

• 堤dī🔊

  variant of 堤[di1]

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 垴nǎo🔊

  small hill

  12 strokes