漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
陸: land, six
JLPT N211 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
- ⻖hill(meaning)
- 坴(sound)
⻖ carries the meaning · 坴 gives the sound
11 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
リクriku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 陸りくland, shore
- 陸地りくちland
- 陸上りくじょうland, ground, shore
- 陸橋りっきょうoverland bridge, overpass
- 陸軍りくぐんarmy
- 陸路りくろoverland route, land route
- 大陸たいりくcontinent
- 着陸するちゃくりくするland, touch down
- 上陸するじょうりくするland, go ashore
Also read ロク, おか, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Climb high! This radical represents the natural landscape of mounds, hills, and the protective physical barriers they provide for human settlements.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read リク
1 kanji shares this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified 陆 · traditional, as in Japanese · lù
Japan keeps the traditional form 陸; mainland China simplifies it to 陆.
- Simplified
- 陆 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 陸 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin lù most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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