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.

• 垇ào🔊

  (used in place names)

  8 strokes

• 垈dài🔊

  used in place names

  8 strokes

• 城chéng🔊

  city walls

  HSK 3

  9 strokes

• 型xíng🔊

  mold

  HSK 4

  9 strokes

• 垫diàn🔊

  pad

  HSK 7

  9 strokes

• 垛duǒ🔊

  variant of 垛[duo3]

  9 strokes

• 垮kuǎ🔊

  to collapse (lit. or fig.)

  HSK 7

  9 strokes

• 垚yáo🔊

  variant of 堯|尧, legendary emperor Yao, c. 2200 BC

  9 strokes

• 垒lěi🔊

  rampart

  9 strokes

• 垌dòng🔊

  field

  9 strokes

• 垍jì🔊

  hard earth

  9 strokes

• 垎hè🔊

  (literary) (of soil) dry and hard

  9 strokes

• 垏lǜ🔊

  (literary) earth ridge between fields

  9 strokes

• 垓gāi🔊

  boundary

  9 strokes

• 垔yīn🔊

  to restrain

  9 strokes

• 垕hòu🔊

  thick

  9 strokes

• 垖duī🔊

  old variant of 堆[dui1]

  9 strokes

• 垗zhào🔊

  sacrifice

  9 strokes

• 垙guāng🔊

  (literary) footpath separating fields

  9 strokes

• 垝guǐ🔊

  (literary) dilapidated; collapsed; damaged

  9 strokes

• 垞chá🔊

  mound

  9 strokes

• 垟yáng🔊

  clay sheep buried with the dead

  9 strokes

• 垠yín🔊

  limit

  9 strokes

• 垡fá🔊

  to turn the soil

  9 strokes

• 垢gòu🔊

  dirt

  9 strokes

• 垣yuán🔊

  wall

  9 strokes

• 垤dié🔊

  anthill

  9 strokes

• 垦kěn🔊

  to reclaim (land)

  9 strokes

• 垧shǎng🔊

  unit of land area (equivalent to 10 or 15 mǔ 畝|亩[mu3] in parts of northeast China, but only 3 or 5 mǔ in northwest China)

  9 strokes

• 垩è🔊

  to whitewash

  9 strokes

• 垭yā🔊

  (dialect) strip of land between hills

  9 strokes

• 垯da🔊

  used in 圪墶|圪垯[ge1 da5]

  9 strokes

• 垱dàng🔊

  (dialect) earthen dyke in a river or rice paddy (for irrigation purposes)

  9 strokes

• 垲kǎi🔊

  dry terrain

  9 strokes

• 垴nǎo🔊

  small hill

  9 strokes

• 埯ǎn🔊

  hole in the ground to plant seeds in

  9 strokes

• 埏shān🔊

  to mix water with clay

  9 strokes

• 鿍gàng🔊

  hill

  9 strokes

• 埋mái🔊

  to bury

  HSK 6

  10 strokes

• 埃āi🔊

  dust

  10 strokes

• 垺póu🔊

  extremely large

  10 strokes

• 垾hàn🔊

  small dike

  10 strokes

• 垿xù🔊

  earthern goblet stand also known as 反坫[fan3 dian4] (old)

  10 strokes

• 埀chuí🔊

  old variant of 垂[chui2]

  10 strokes

• 埂gěng🔊

  strip of high ground

  10 strokes

• 埄běng🔊

  variant of 埲[beng3]

  10 strokes

• 埆què🔊

  (of land) barren

  10 strokes

• 埇yǒng🔊

  raised path

  10 strokes