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.

• 塾shú🔊

  private school

  14 strokes

• 境jìng🔊

  border

  14 strokes

• 㙦xié🔊

  (used in place names)

  14 strokes

• 塽shuǎng🔊

  (literary) elevated sunlit ground

  14 strokes

• 墁màn🔊

  to plaster

  14 strokes

• 墅shù🔊

  villa

  14 strokes

• 墈kàn🔊

  cliff

  14 strokes

• 墉yōng🔊

  fortified wall

  14 strokes

• 墐jǐn🔊

  bury

  14 strokes

• 墒shāng🔊

  plowed earth

  14 strokes

• 墘qián🔊

  (Minnan dialect) beside

  14 strokes

• 墟xū🔊

  ruins

  14 strokes

• 墬dì🔊

  variant of 地[di4]

  14 strokes

• 坟fén🔊

  grave

  HSK 7

  15 strokes

• 墨mò🔊

  ink stick

  HSK 7

  15 strokes

• 墩dūn🔊

  block

  15 strokes

• 墀chí🔊

  courtyard

  15 strokes

• 增zēng🔊

  (bound form) to increase; to augment; to add to

  HSK 5

  15 strokes

• 墦fán🔊

  a grave

  15 strokes

• 墫zūn🔊

  old variant of 樽[zun1]

  15 strokes

• 墰tán🔊

  variant of 罈|坛[tan2]

  15 strokes

• 墵tán🔊

  old variant of 壜[tan2]

  15 strokes

• 垯da🔊

  used in 圪墶|圪垯[ge1 da5]

  15 strokes

• 墺ào🔊

  building-plot

  15 strokes

• 壁bì🔊

  wall

  16 strokes

• 坛tán🔊

  earthen jar

  HSK 7

  16 strokes

• 墼jī🔊

  (bound form) unfired brick

  16 strokes

• 垦kěn🔊

  to reclaim (land)

  16 strokes

• 壅yōng🔊

  to obstruct

  16 strokes

• 壆bó🔊

  (dialect) mounded row of soil (in which crops are planted)

  16 strokes

• 𡒄lǎn🔊

  disappointed

  16 strokes

• 垱dàng🔊

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

  16 strokes

• 压yā🔊

  to press

  HSK 3

  17 strokes

• 壎xūn🔊

  ancient porcelain wind-instrument

  17 strokes

• 壑hè🔊

  gully

  17 strokes

• 壕háo🔊

  moat

  17 strokes

• 壖ruán🔊

  land on water edge or under wall

  17 strokes

• 圹kuàng🔊

  tomb

  17 strokes

• 垒lěi🔊

  rampart

  18 strokes

• 坏huài🔊

  bad

  HSK 1

  19 strokes

• 垆lú🔊

  clay

  19 strokes

• 壜tán🔊

  variant of 罈|坛[tan2]

  19 strokes

• 垄lǒng🔊

  ridge between fields

  19 strokes

• 垅lǒng🔊

  old variant of 壟|垄[long3]

  19 strokes

• 坜lì🔊

  hole, pit

  19 strokes

• 壤rǎng🔊

  (bound form) soil; earth

  20 strokes

• 坝bà🔊

  dam

  HSK 7

  24 strokes