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.

• 堙yīn🔊

  variant of 堙[yin1]

  12 strokes

• 堞dié🔊

  battlements

  12 strokes

• 堠hòu🔊

  mounds for beacons

  12 strokes

• 堧ruán🔊

  adjoin

  12 strokes

• 堨è🔊

  dam

  12 strokes

• 堪kān🔊

  (bound form) may; can

  12 strokes

• 堭huáng🔊

  a dry moat outside a city wall

  12 strokes

• 堮è🔊

  a boundary

  12 strokes

• 尧Yáo🔊

  surname Yao

  12 strokes

• 堰yàn🔊

  weir

  12 strokes

• 堳méi🔊

  low wall

  12 strokes

• 堼hèng🔊

  (used in place names)

  12 strokes

• 堿jiǎn🔊

  variant of 鹼|碱[jian3]

  12 strokes

• 塂jiǎng🔊

  (dialect) hill

  12 strokes

• 塃huāng🔊

  (dialect) newly-mined ore

  12 strokes

• 塄léng🔊

  elevated bank around a field

  12 strokes

• 塅duàn🔊

  large area of flat terrain (used in place names)

  12 strokes

• 塆wān🔊

  col

  12 strokes

• 塈jì🔊

  (literary) to plaster

  12 strokes

• 塠duī🔊

  old variant of 堆[dui1]

  12 strokes

• 塭wēn🔊

  used in 魚塭|鱼塭[yu2 wen1]

  12 strokes

• 𪣻lǒu🔊

  small mound

  12 strokes

• 塞sāi🔊

  to plug; to stop up; to stuff in

  HSK 6

  13 strokes

• 填tián🔊

  to fill or stuff

  HSK 4

  13 strokes

• 涂tú🔊

  to apply (paint etc)

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 墓mù🔊

  grave

  HSK 6

  13 strokes

• 塌tā🔊

  to collapse

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 堽gāng🔊

  mound

  13 strokes

• 茔yíng🔊

  (literary) a grave

  13 strokes

• 塍chéng🔊

  variant of 塍[cheng2]

  13 strokes

• 垲kǎi🔊

  dry terrain

  13 strokes

• 塑sù🔊

  to model (a figure) in clay

  13 strokes

• 埘shí🔊

  hen roost

  13 strokes

• 塓mì🔊

  to plaster

  13 strokes

• 塕wěng🔊

  flying dust (dialect)

  13 strokes

• 塘táng🔊

  dyke

  13 strokes

• 塙què🔊

  truly

  13 strokes

• 塝bàng🔊

  the edge

  13 strokes

• 塡tián🔊

  variant of 填[tian2]

  13 strokes

• 坞wù🔊

  variant of 塢|坞[wu4]

  13 strokes

• 埙xūn🔊

  ocarina

  13 strokes

• 塥gé🔊

  dry clay lump

  13 strokes

• 塬yuán🔊

  plateau, esp. Loess Plateau of northwest China 黃土高原|黄土高原[Huang2 tu3 Gao1 yuan2]

  13 strokes

• 塱lǎng🔊

  raised bank

  13 strokes

• 墙qiáng🔊

  wall (CL:面[mian4],堵[du3])

  HSK 2

  14 strokes

• 垫diàn🔊

  pad

  HSK 7

  14 strokes

• 尘chén🔊

  dust

  14 strokes

• 坠zhuì🔊

  to fall

  HSK 7

  14 strokes