Kanji Kaisen

字の旅3,000 years in four forms

Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE

Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

部首Radical · in Nature & Elements

土

土 earth, soil, ground

つち tsuchi

3 strokesRadical of 51 kanjiPart of 62

Your ink in 土0% painted · 0 of 51 familiar

Origin · sourced

Pictogram 象形: a mound of earth. In oracle-bone inscriptions, it could also refer to the soil deity, serving as the original graph of 社.

Source: Wiktionary, 土 (rev. 94507204), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine a cross planted firmly in the ground—that's 土! It shows a stake or a seedling marking the earth, reminding us of farming, construction, and the solid foundation upon which we build our lives and cities.”

Where it sits in a kanji

Relates to the ground, soil, specific locations, or the act of building and construction

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What it grows into

Built from 土, with sourced origins
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Every kanji with 土 as its radical

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Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

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