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.

• 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

• 埈jùn🔊

  variant of 峻[jun4]

  10 strokes

• 埌làng🔊

  wasteland

  10 strokes

• 埒liè🔊

  (literary) equal

  10 strokes

• 埔bù🔊

  used in place names

  10 strokes

• 埕chéng🔊

  earthen jar

  10 strokes

• 埗bù🔊

  wharf

  10 strokes

• 埘shí🔊

  hen roost

  10 strokes

• 埙xūn🔊

  ocarina

  10 strokes

• 埚guō🔊

  crucible

  10 strokes

• 埛jiōng🔊

  old variant of 坰[jiong1]

  10 strokes

• 堲jí🔊

  hate

  10 strokes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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