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JLPT HSK 1 |
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| to exist, (located) at, (to be) in, in the middle of doing sth
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Outside: var. of talent 才 (If the big 大 man balances on one foot, he is talented.), bottom: earth 土
The talents on earth exist in being ..
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去
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JLPT HSK 1 |
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| to go away, to cause, remove, get rid of
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Top: earth, ground 土, bottom: nose 厶 (Image of a nose in side view)
When the nose is below the ground, it has gone away.
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坐
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JLPT HSK 1 |
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| to sit, to take (a seat/a bus), bear fruit
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Two people 人 on the earth/ground 土
Two people on the ground: they are sitting.
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块
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JLPT HSK 1 |
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| lump (of earth), chunk, piece
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Left: earth 土, right: 夬 (a person 人 with a backpack コ)
(You can only transport a little this way:) The earth in the person's backpack is just a lump.
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走
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| to walk, to go, to move (a vehicle)
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At top: earth 土, bottom: variation of a foot 足 (= kneecap 口 and footprint 止)
On the earth the feet have to walk.
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场
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JLPT HSK 2 |
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| place, open space, stage
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Left: earth 土, right: simplified from 'easy' 易 (= The sun 日 with warming sun shine 勿 makes it easy.)
The earth warmed by the sun with its shine, that's my: place.
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境
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| border, boundary, place, circumstances
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Left: earth 土, right: actually 竟 (standing 立, sun 日 and legs 儿)
The earth remains standing, while the sun continues to go: We are at the border.
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地
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| ground, place, land (adverbial particle)
de, dì
土
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Left: earth 土, right: also/too 也 (shows a twisting creature, i.e. a snake or scorpion)
The earth is for snakes its: ground or place.
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坏
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| bad, to break down, spoiled
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Left: earth/ground 土, right: not 不 (Four strokes are not enough!)
If sth. is on the ground, where it should not be, it is: bad and/or broken.
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城
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| city walls, city, town
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Left: earth/ground 土, right: achieve, succeed 成 (In the direction 方 of the halberd 戈 we will achieve it.)
Made of earth and for achieving (a city): The city wall.
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压
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| to press, to push down, pressure, to keep under (control)
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Cliff 厂 and earth 土 with emphasis 丶
At the cliff it affects the emphasized earth: The pressure.
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社
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| society, association, group, club, agency
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Left: to show/altar 礻(=示 image of an altar 丁 with a sacrifice 一 and dripping blood 八), right: earth 土
He shows (points) to this earth. Here we found our society.
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幸
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| happiness, fortunate, lucky, trusted
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From top: earth 土, two drops 丶丶 and mirrored earth 干 (or variation of sheep: 羊)
Between two earths is the happiness.
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基
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| foundation, base, basic
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Top: image of a grain shovel/scoop 其 (tool for threshing, that is used for throwing up the grain rhythmically to divide the grain from the husk [thus used in period 期], below: earth 土
The grain scoop has an earthen foundation.
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肚
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| stomach, abdomen, tripe, belly
dǔ, dù
肉
土
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Left: body part 月/肉, right: earth 土
The part of the body (or viscera), which (in cattle) is located at the bottom (= near the ground), is the stomach.
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址
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| address, location, site
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Left: earth 土, right: to stop 止 (footprint of a right foot that stops at a line 一)
The 'earth' where I stop, is my address.
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增
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| to increase, to expand, to add
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Left: earth 土, right: formerly 曾/曽 (At rain 丷 on the field 田 as under the sun 日, that's how we worked formerly.)
(Now we have soil erosion. But:) The earth formerly: increased.
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盐
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| salt
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Top: 圤 (earth 土, fortune telling 卜 also understood as a branching), bottom: bowl 皿
From earth it can be separated (branched off) and collected in a bowl: salt.
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填
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| to fill or stuff, to fill in (a form)
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Left: earth 土, right: really, truly 真 (What is seen by ten 十 eyes 目 on the table  is truely real.) [tool 具 = The eye 目 sees on the table a tool 具]
(uneven ground is not good) The earth is only real, when it is filled up.
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塑
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| to model (a figure) in clay
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Top: new moon, 1.day in lunar calendar 朔 (The disobedient 屰 [=A plant's 艹 shoot 屮 that grows crooked] moon 月 is not shining at new moon), bottom: earth 土
At new moon take earth (clay) for modelling.
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堵
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| wall, to block up, (to feel) suffocated or stifled
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Left: earth 土, right: person 者 (old man 耂 on the sun 日)
"Earth" that is (used against) persons is a wall that blocks and suffocates.
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垃
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| trash, garbage, of poor quality
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Left: earth, ground 土, right: to stand 立
It is the ground where it should stand: The trash.
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圾
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| trash, garbage
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Left: earth 土, right: reach 及 (A hand  stretched out to reach something 丿
(If you throw it away:) The ground will be reached by the trash.
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坚
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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| strong, solid, firm, unyielding, resolute
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Top: knife 刂 and hand 又, below: earth 土
With a knife in my hand I am on the earth: strong and resolute!
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土
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| earth, soil, local, indigenous, unsophisticated
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A cross 十 stands on the earth 一.
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域
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| region, zone, area, field, domain (taxonomy)
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Left: earth 土, right: maybe 或 (halberd 戈, below: outline 口 of a field with marked border line 一)
Earth and fields are divided 一 by halberds into regions and zones.
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墙
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| wall
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Left: earth 土, right: stingy 啬 (He who constantly turns his gold 金 around 回 is stingy.) - Here: a variant of squeeze 夹 [squeeze 夹 = The husband 夫 is squeezed between two persons 丷 (=2x 人 ), cf. 薔]
The earth is squeezing and revolves at the wall.
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均
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| average, equal, even, all, uniform
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Left: earth 土, right: ladle 勺 with a bit more 丶ノ in it
The earth in the ladle is in the average.
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堆
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| pile, heap, stack, mass, to pile up
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Left: earth 土, right: bird 隹
(never directly on the bare ground) The earth, on which a bird is sitting, is piled up.
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壁
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| wall, rampart
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Top: anal penetration, torture 辟 (buttock from the side 尸, anus 口, needle 辛 as symbol for penetration or torture), bottom: earth 土
Anal penetration on the earth, but behind a wall.
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吐
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| to vomit, to throw up, to spit
tǔ, tù
口
土
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Left: mouth 口, right: earth/ground 土
From his mouth to the ground he disgorged the vomit.
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型
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| form, model, type (e.g. blood type)
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Top: punishment 刑 (who openly 开 [=gate at temple] uses his knife刂 is punished.), earth: 土
Use an open knife and earth (=clay) to form a model.
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尘
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| dust, dirt, earth
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Top: small 小, bottom: earth 土
The 'small earth' is the dust.
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坦
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| flat, open-hearted, smooth, level
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Left: earth 土, right: sun rise 旦 (The sun 日 is just above the horizon 一)
The earth at the sunrise appears flat.
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塘
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| dyke, embankment, pool or pond, hot-water bathing pool
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Left: earth 土, right: Tang dynasty 唐 (In the building 广 the hand with pestle 丨 and mortar 口 during Tang)
If by earth a "building" is made by hand as a surrounding mouth, it is a: dyke (embarkment) for a pond.
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培
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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| to cultivate, to grow, educate
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Left: earth 土, right: spit 咅 (stand 立 with open mouth 口 and spit)
On the earth it was spit and we started cultivating.
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坛
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| earthen jar, altar
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Left: earth 土, right: cloud 云 (It can drip from both 二, namely from noses 厶 or: clouds)
Use earth (=clay) and (water from the) cloud to you make a jar.
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堪
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to endure, bear, may, can
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Left: earth 土, right: extraordinary, extreme 甚 (A grain shovel 其 with an extra angle  makes it very extraordinary)
Earth shows extreme endurance.
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墓
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| grave, tomb, mausoleum
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Top: negative, sunset 莫 (The plants 艹 are made by the sun 日 to be large 大 [= as long shadows] at sunset.), bottom: earth 土
Sinking among plants into the earth: into the grave.
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杜
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| birchleaf pear (tree), to stop, to restrict
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Left: tree 木, right: earth 土
A tree that is especially depending on the earth is the: pear tree.
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墨
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| black ink, China ink, Mexico 墨西哥
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Top: black 黒 (The underside of the cooking pot 里 is stained by fire 灬 black), below: earth 土
Black earth is used: for ink.
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塞
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to block, to stuff, to squeeze in, obstruct, Serbian
sāi, sài, sè
宀
井
六
土
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From top: roof 宀, a well 井, var. of six 六, earth 土
Despite the roof, the well was already six-times filled with earth and thus blocked/obstructed.
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堡
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| castle, position of defense, earthwork, stronghold
bǎo, bǔ, pù
保
土
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Top: protect 保 (A person 亻builds fence 口 over tree 木 to protect it.), bottom: earth 土
For the protection you use earth when building: a castle.
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疆
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| border, boundary
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Left: bow 弓 and earth 土, right: 畺 (Three 三 border lines between fields 田)
With a bow I guard the earth at the border lines: of the border.
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坡
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| slope, sloping, slanted
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Left: earth 土, right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂.)
(Here the turf is open) That the ground/earth has a skin, you can see at the slope.
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圣
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| holy, sacred, divine
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This is understood as "vertical" with a hand 又 vertically above the earth 土
The hand is vertically 圣 over the object when blessing it, thus when making it: 'holy'.
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庄
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| farmstead, manor, village
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Left: building 广, below: earth 土
The building next to earth is: a farmstead.
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垂
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to hang (down), droop, dangle, nearly, almost
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A vehicle 車 with a loose tire that hangs down/droops.
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塔
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| pagoda, tower, stupa
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Left: earth 土, right: 荅 (plant 艹, to fit 合 [The lid  on the pot 口])
Earth must be reinforced with plant fiber in a fitting way, if you want to build a pagoda.
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坑
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| pit, ditch, tunnel, to defraud
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Left: earth 土, right: overbearing 亢 (Here: the navigator 亢 of navigation 航 [= sturdy person with a broad neck] or a pitman)
In the earth is the pitman/miner in a pit / ditch.
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坠
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to fall, to drop, to weigh down
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Top: troops 队 (On the hill 阝the persons 人 are posted as troops), bottom: earth 土
From the hill the person comes (down) to the earth, because he has fallen down.
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垄
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| ridge between fields, monopolize, row of crops, grave mound
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Top: dragon 龙 (The emphasized 丶 person 尢/尤 has a broken leg 乚 with a winding dragon ノ), bottom: 土
Like a dragon of earth is the ridge between the fields, which is monopolizing.
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坟
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| grave, tomb, mound
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Left: earth 土, right: text/language 文 (Image of a folding table for writing a text.)
(Inscription at graveyard:) The earth with the text is: the grave.
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埋
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to bury, to blame
mái, mán
土
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Left: earth/ground 土, right: village 里 (Fields 田 and earth 土 belong to a village)
In the ground at the village they will be buried.
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堂
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| (main) hall, dining hall
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Top: esteem, to value 尚 (small 小, house 冂 with a window 口), bottom: earth 土. BETTER: Reinforced roof 宀 with additional beams 丷 because of the size of a hall 口 on the ground 土
The reinforced roof for a hall on the ground: The hall!
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壤
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| soil, earth, to border
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Left: earth 土, right: to help, assist 襄 (For covering 亠 both (=two pieces 口) wells 井 with cloth 衣, I need help)
The soil (itself) assists being soil.
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堤
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| dike, dam, embankment
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Left: earth 土, right: correct 是 (sun 日, variant of correct 正)
The earth is correctly (used) for a dike.
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塌
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| collapse, to fall in ruins
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Left: earth 土, right: sun 日, feather 羽 (here: to fly)
(Icarus and Daedalus) You will come back to earth, when you want (to reach) the sun, and your feathers: collapse.
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垫
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| mat, mattress, pad, cushion
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Top: grasp, seize 执 (If you get your hand 扌to that small bead 丸 you grasp it.), bottom: earth 土
By hand the beads/pills (are spread) to form: a mattress.
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堕
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| to degenerate, destroy, to fall, overthrow
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Left: hill 阝, right: be, have, exist 有 (I have hand and body 月, thus I am existing.), below: earth 土
One hill exists on earth but it is degenerating.
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灶
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| kitchen stove, furnace
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Left: fire 火, right: earth 土
The fire on the ground is the kitchen stove.
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丧
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| mourn, mourning, funeral
sāng, sàng
丷
土
衣
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Top: two bodies 丷 in the earth 土 (cf. gold 金), bottom: clothes 衣
When the two bodies come into the earth, you wear these clothes: to mourn at the funeral.
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坝
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| dike, dam, embankment
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Left: earth 土, right: money 贝/貝
You need earth and money for a dike.
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墅
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| villa
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Top: open land 野 (village, home 里, bestow 予 (The bent person マ has a nail 丁 to give), bottom: earth 土
A home was bestowed on the earth of our villa.
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墟
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| ruins, grave, mound
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Left: earth 土, right: void, emptiness 虚 (The tiger's 虍 hole 业 is void. )[业= hollow volcanic vent]
The earth is void when with ruins and graves.
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睦
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| friendly, harmonious, amicable, peaceful relations
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Left: eye 目, right: 坴 (eight 八, 2 x land 土)
The view on all that land is friendly and harmonious.
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陛
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JLPT no HSK |
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| the steps to the throne
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Left: hill 阝, right: 坒 (compare 比 [= compare the two sitting persons 匕], earth 土)
Like a hill in proportion to the earth is his majesty on the throne.
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垮
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to collapse, to break or wear down, to defeat
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Left: earth 土, right: boast 夸 (With part of jaw 咢 [=two teeth 口, tongue 一, lower jaw 丂], such that your big/extreme 太 jaw 丂 is boasting.)
Down to the earth falls the one who boasted, when collapsing.
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坪
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JLPT no HSK |
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| a plain, unit of area equal to 3.3 square meters
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Left: earth/ground 土, right: flat/plain 平
The ground has to be flat to measure one 'Píng'.
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垒
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JLPT no HSK |
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| rampart, barrier, base (in baseball)
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Traditionally 壘, which shows three fields 田 above the earth 土. Now top part simplified to: nose 厶
Like three fields (now: "noses") the earth serves (piled): as a rampart.
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坎
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JLPT no HSK |
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| bumpy, hole, pit, threshold, snare
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Left: earth 土, right: lack 欠 (A yawning  person 人 is lacking sth.)
If earth is lacking, it becomes: bumpy.
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坤
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JLPT no HSK |
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| receiving, symbolizing earth, female principle ☷
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Left: earth 土, right: to explain, to say 申 (A mouth 口 with a big "plus" + for the outgoing surplus when explaining.)
The earth says, that it is: receiving. (= female)
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垣
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JLPT no HSK |
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| wall, city wall
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Left: earth 土, right: to extend wholly 亘 (from sunrise to sunset 亘 [=the sun 日 above 旦 and below the horizon 一])
The earth must (be piled) from sunrise to sunset to get: a wall. (Or: The earth must extend wholly [without flaws] as: city wall)
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埃
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JLPT no HSK |
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| dust, dirt, Ångström (=10^-10 m), Egypt
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Left: earth 土, right: end-particle 矣 (If the nose 厶 is hit by the arrow 矢, it is the end) [here: 厶 as arrowhead]
The earth is hit by the head 厶 of the arrow and turns into: dust.
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牡
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JLPT no HSK |
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| (of a bird, animal or plant) male, key, hills
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Left: cow 牛, right: earth 土
The cow on the ground is male.
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垦
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to cultivate, to reclaim (land)
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Top: 'not good' 艮 ('good' would be 良, but here the accent 丶 is missing, thus 'not good'), bottom: earth 土
A 'not-good' earth needs to be: cultivated.
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壕
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JLPT no HSK |
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| air-raid shelter, trench
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Left: earth 土, right: superior, heroic 豪 (The tall 高 pig 豕 is superior and heroic)
The earth with the tall pigs is: the trench.
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埔
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JLPT no HSK |
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| port, pier, wharf
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Left: earth 土, right: just now 甫 (A hand for holding an item 丶 is what I need 用 just now)
(When on high sea:) The earth, I need just now is: a port.
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坊
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JLPT no HSK |
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| lane (often in a street name), neighborhood, workshop
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Left: earth/ground 土, right: direction/square 方
It's only made of earth and leads in one direction: The lane
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坞
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JLPT no HSK |
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| dock, entrenchment, bank, low wall
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Left: earth 土, right: bird 乌 (variation of bird 鸟/烏)
(Because this bird can no longer hunt, it hopes for some fish from the fishermen:) On the earth is the eye-less bird sitting on: the dock.
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垢
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JLPT no HSK |
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| dirt, disgrace
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Left: earth 土, right: empress, behind 后 (Originates in the custom that the empress followed behind the emperor. shows: buttocks 尸 with anus 口 for: "behind": The one following 'behind' is the empress.)
What comes to the ground from the buttocks' anus, is: dirt.
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圳
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JLPT no HSK |
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| drainage ditch, furrow in field
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Left: earth 土, right: river 川
In the earth is this "river": A drainage ditch.
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堑
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JLPT no HSK |
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| moat around a city
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Top: chop 斩 (The vehicle 車 was chopped by an axe 斤.), bottom: earth 土
When 'chopping' the earth, you get: a moat.
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埠
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JLPT no HSK |
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| wharf, port, pier
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Left: earth 土, right: mound, abundant 阜 (Of such buttocks  you need ten 十 to pile up a mound)
Earth as a mound at the: wharf.
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堰
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JLPT no HSK |
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| dam, embankment, dike, bank, weir
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Left: earth 土, right: 匽 (frame 匚, sun 日 (here: simplified field 田), woman 女)
The earth that (protects) as a frame the (simplified) fields and the women is: a dam.
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坍
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JLPT no HSK |
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| collapse
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Left: earth 土, right: red, pellet 丹
At the earth (= the shore) is a broken 丹 boat 舟, because it collapsed.
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圭
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JLPT no HSK |
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| jade tablet
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Twice earth on top of each other 圭 as the image of a tablet. The radical has the meaning: piled earth
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墩
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JLPT no HSK |
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| block, gate pillar, pier, classifier for clusters of plants
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Left: earth 土, right: kind-hearted 敦 (enjoy 享 [= The tall 高 child 子 enjoys], to strike 攵)
If the earth is piled like a big child with strokes, it became a: gate pillar.
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逵
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JLPT no HSK |
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| crossroads, thoroughfare
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Left: movement 辶, right: 坴 (2x earth 土, in the middle: two ways 八)
For the movement on two ways between twice 'earths' [hills?], there is: a crossing.
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坯
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JLPT no HSK |
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| unburnt earthenware, blank, semifinished product
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Left: earth 土, right: grand, great 丕 (Between two 二 boundaries something small 小 can be: great.)
From the earth (=clay) sth. small 小 is made in the mold 二 - It is the: blank (= unburnt earthenware).
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茬
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JLPT no HSK |
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| stubble land after crop has been taken, an opportunity
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Top: plant 艹, bottom: to exist, (located) at 在 (The talents 才 on earth 土 exist in doing ...) [talent 才 = when the big man 大 balances on one foot.]
(New) plants can exist here: on the stubble land.
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塾
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JLPT no HSK |
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| private tutorage
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Top: who, which 孰 (enjoy 享 [The tall 高 child 子 is enjoying.]; round, bead 丸), bottom: earth 土
Big 高 children 子 sit in a round on the earth at a private school.
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坷
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JLPT no HSK |
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| uneven (path), unfortunate (in life)
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Left: earth 土, right: be possible, can 可 (The nail 丁 into the opening 口 should be possible.)
With the earth it is possible that it is: uneven.
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壑
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JLPT no HSK |
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| channel, gully, narrow ravine, bed of torrent
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Top: 㕡 (Upper left resembles: cavity,hole 穴 and valley 谷 with other elements showing a channel itself) and hand 又), bottom: earth 土
(So that the water can flow away) A hole for running towards the valley was formed by the hand in the earth as a channel or canal.
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坂
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JLPT no HSK |
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| Used in Ōsaka 大坂 (jpn. city), hill
dà, bǎn
土
反
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Left: earth 土, right: opposition 反 (Climbing the cliff 厂 by hand 又? I am opposing)
The earth is the opposite of a slope or a hill, where Ōsaka 大坂 is.
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