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地
JLPT N4 SL2 6 strokes Frequency: #40

Meanings

Ground, Earth

Radicals

土

Decomposition

⿰土也

Etymology

Pictophonetic: earth

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 6

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top
2 vertical top-right-to-bottom-left
3 rising bottom-to-top
4 hook bottom-right-to-top-left
5 vertical right-to-left
6 curve bottom-right-to-top-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ジ ji
チ chi
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

1571 words total
Other (20 words)
地縛霊 じばくれい

ghost bound to a specific physical location (usu. where death occurred)

入植地 にゅうしょくち

settlement (of people on land)

議論の余地 ぎろんのよち

room for argument

底意地 そこいじ

latent disposition

地気 ちき

air or vapour in the soil (vapor)

地方場所 ちほうばしょ

provincial tournament, held outside Tokyo

御当地相撲 ごとうちずもう

local wrestler

泥地 でいち

mud

温泉地 おんせんち

hot spring area

浅発地震 せんぱつじしん

shallow earthquake

天災地変 てんさいちへん

natural disaster

世界地図 せかいちず

world map

阿鼻地獄 あびじごく

Avici hell (the eighth and most painful of the eight hells)

地獄絵図 じごくえず

painting of a scene in Hell

失地回復 しっちかいふく

the recovery of lost territory

地所観念 じしょかんねん

the orientation of time and place

天地長久 てんちちょうきゅう

heaven and earth are eternal

天地鳴動 てんちめいどう

rumbling and shaking of the earth

天地玄黄 てんちげんこう

heaven is black and earth is yellow

下地 したじ

groundwork