漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
地: ground, earth
JLPT N46 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
土 carries the meaning · 也 gives the sound
6 strokes
Bronze · Western Zhou Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
チchi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 地下ちかunderground
- 地下鉄ちかてつsubway
- 地図ちずmap
- 地球ちきゅうthe earth
- 地平線ちへいせんhorizon
- 目的地もくてきちdestination
- 土地とちplot of land
- 各地かくちvarious places
- 現地げんちactual place
ジji · on'yomi
- 地震じしんearthquake
- 地獄じごくhell
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)土 earth (meaning) + 也 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 地 (rev. 92810042), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Earth radical + also (也) = the actual physical ground we stand on and walk across.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side地 ground · 土
vs他 other · 亻In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · de, dì
Same form: 地 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 地 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 地 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin de, dì most common readings
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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