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.

• 圣shèng🔊

  variant of 聖|圣[sheng4]

  5 strokes

• 圢tǐng🔊

  flat

  5 strokes

• 在zài🔊

  HSK 1

  6 strokes

• 地de🔊

  HSK 1

  6 strokes

• 场chǎng🔊

  large place used for a specific purpose

  HSK 2

  6 strokes

• 圭guī🔊

  jade tablet, square at the base and rounded or pointed at the top, held by the nobility at ceremonies

  6 strokes

• 圩wéi🔊

  dike

  6 strokes

• 圪gē🔊

  (phonetic)

  6 strokes

• 圫tuō🔊

  (used in place names)

  6 strokes

• 圬wū🔊

  to plaster

  6 strokes

• 圮pǐ🔊

  destroyed

  6 strokes

• 圯yí🔊

  bridge, bank

  6 strokes

• 圱qiān🔊

  a field of three li

  6 strokes

• 圳zhèn🔊

  (dialect) drainage ditch between fields (Taiwan pr. [zun4])

  6 strokes

• 圹kuàng🔊

  tomb

  6 strokes

• 圾jī🔊

  used in 垃圾[la1 ji1]

  6 strokes