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.

• 坐zuò🔊

  to sit

  HSK 1

  7 strokes

• 坏huài🔊

  bad

  HSK 1

  7 strokes

• 块kuài🔊

  lump; chunk; piece

  HSK 1

  7 strokes

• 均jūn🔊

  (bound form) equal; uniform; even

  7 strokes

• 坑kēng🔊

  pit; hollow; depression

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 坎kǎn🔊

  old variant of 坎[kan3]

  7 strokes

• 坟fén🔊

  grave

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 坝bà🔊

  dam

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 坠zhuì🔊

  to fall

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 坚jiān🔊

  strong

  7 strokes

• 坛tán🔊

  earthen jar

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 坊fāng🔊

  lane (usually as part of a street name)

  7 strokes

• 圻qí🔊

  boundary

  7 strokes

• 址zhǐ🔊

  (bound form) site; location

  7 strokes

• 坂bǎn🔊

  variant of 阪[ban3]

  7 strokes

• 坆méi🔊

  variant of 梅[mei2]

  7 strokes

• 坈kēng🔊

  old variant of 坑[keng1]

  7 strokes

• 坋bèn🔊

  dust

  7 strokes

• 坌bèn🔊

  variant of 坋[ben4]

  7 strokes

• 坍tān🔊

  to collapse

  7 strokes

• 坒bì🔊

  (literary) to adjoin

  7 strokes

• 坓jǐng🔊

  variant of 阱[jing3]

  7 strokes

• 坕jīng🔊

  old variant of 經|经[jing1]

  7 strokes

• 坜lì🔊

  hole, pit

  7 strokes

• 坞wù🔊

  variant of 塢|坞[wu4]

  7 strokes

• 坦tǎn🔊

  flat

  8 strokes

• 坻dǐ🔊

  place name

  8 strokes

• 坨tuó🔊

  mound; heap; lump

  8 strokes

• 坤kūn🔊

  one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing earth

  8 strokes

• 坡pō🔊

  slope

  HSK 6

  8 strokes

• 坴lù🔊

  a clod of earth

  8 strokes

• 垂chuí🔊

  to hang (down)

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 坪píng🔊

  a plain

  8 strokes

• 坳ào🔊

  depression; cavity; hollow

  8 strokes

• 㘵bù🔊

  (used in place names)

  8 strokes

• 坩gān🔊

  crucible

  8 strokes

• 坫diàn🔊

  stand for goblets

  8 strokes

• 坭ní🔊

  variant of 泥[ni2]

  8 strokes

• 坯pī🔊

  blank (e.g. for a coin)

  8 strokes

• 坰jiōng🔊

  environs

  8 strokes

• 坱yǎng🔊

  fine dust

  8 strokes

• 坲fó🔊

  (of dust) to rise in the air

  8 strokes

• 坷kě🔊

  used in 坎坷[kan3 ke3]

  8 strokes

• 坼chè🔊

  to crack

  8 strokes

• 坽líng🔊

  (literary) precipitous cliff

  8 strokes

• 垃lā🔊

  used in 垃圾[la1 ji1]

  8 strokes

• 垅lǒng🔊

  old variant of 壟|垄[long3]

  8 strokes

• 垆lú🔊

  clay

  8 strokes