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.

• 埶yì🔊

  skill

  11 strokes

• 执zhí🔊

  to execute (a plan)

  11 strokes

• 埸yì🔊

  border

  11 strokes

• 培péi🔊

  to bank up with earth

  11 strokes

• 埼qí🔊

  headland

  11 strokes

• 埽sào🔊

  dike

  11 strokes

• 堀kū🔊

  cave

  11 strokes

• 堃kūn🔊

  variant of 坤[kun1] (mainly used in given names)

  11 strokes

• 堄nì🔊

  parapet

  11 strokes

• 堉yù🔊

  fertile soil

  11 strokes

• 堌gù🔊

  place name

  11 strokes

• 堍tù🔊

  side of bridge

  11 strokes

• 堎líng🔊

  mound

  11 strokes

• 堐yá🔊

  (used in place names)

  11 strokes

• 堑qiàn🔊

  (bound form) moat; chasm

  11 strokes

• 𫮃shàn🔊

  level spot for sacrifices

  11 strokes

• 塔tǎ🔊

  old variant of 塔[ta3]

  HSK 6

  12 strokes

• 报bào🔊

  to report; to inform; to announce

  HSK 3

  12 strokes

• 堡bǎo🔊

  (bound form) fortress; stronghold

  12 strokes

• 堤dī🔊

  variant of 堤[di1]

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 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