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.

• 土tǔ🔊

  earth

  HSK 3

  3 strokes

• 圣shèng🔊

  variant of 聖|圣[sheng4]

  5 strokes

• 圢tǐng🔊

  flat

  5 strokes

• 在zài🔊

  to exist; to be alive

  HSK 1

  6 strokes

• 地de🔊

  -ly

  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

• 坐zuò🔊

  to sit

  HSK 1

  7 strokes

• 坏huài🔊

  bad

  HSK 1

  7 strokes

• 块kuài🔊

  lump; chunk; piece

  HSK 1

  7 strokes

• 均jūn🔊

  (bound form) equal; uniform; even

  7 strokes

• 坑kēng🔊

  pit; hollow; depression

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 坎kǎn🔊

  old variant of 坎[kan3]

  7 strokes

• 坟fén🔊

  grave

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 坝bà🔊

  dam

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 坠zhuì🔊

  to fall

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 坚jiān🔊

  strong

  7 strokes

• 坛tán🔊

  earthen jar

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 坊fāng🔊

  lane (usually as part of a street name)

  7 strokes

• 圻qí🔊

  boundary

  7 strokes

• 址zhǐ🔊

  (bound form) site; location

  7 strokes

• 坂bǎn🔊

  variant of 阪[ban3]

  7 strokes

• 坆méi🔊

  variant of 梅[mei2]

  7 strokes

• 坈kēng🔊

  old variant of 坑[keng1]

  7 strokes

• 坋bèn🔊

  dust

  7 strokes

• 坌bèn🔊

  variant of 坋[ben4]

  7 strokes

• 坍tān🔊

  to collapse

  7 strokes

• 坒bì🔊

  (literary) to adjoin

  7 strokes

• 坓jǐng🔊

  variant of 阱[jing3]

  7 strokes

• 坕jīng🔊

  old variant of 經|经[jing1]

  7 strokes

• 坜lì🔊

  hole, pit

  7 strokes

• 坞wù🔊

  variant of 塢|坞[wu4]

  7 strokes

• 坦tǎn🔊

  flat

  8 strokes

• 坻dǐ🔊

  place name

  8 strokes

• 坨tuó🔊

  mound; heap; lump

  8 strokes

• 坤kūn🔊

  one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing earth

  8 strokes

• 坡pō🔊

  slope

  HSK 6

  8 strokes

• 坴lù🔊

  a clod of earth

  8 strokes