在
JLPT HSK 1

zài
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 ..

	去
JLPT HSK 1

qù
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.

	坐
JLPT HSK 1

zuò
Two people 人 on the earth/ground 土
Two people on the ground: they are sitting.

	块
JLPT HSK 1

kuài
Left: earth 土, right: 夬 (a person 人 with a backpack コ)
(You can only transport a little in this way:) The earth in the person's backpack is just a lump.

	走
JLPT HSK 2

zǒu
At top: earth 土, bottom: variation of a foot 足 (= kneecap 口 and footprint 止)
On the earth the feet have to walk.

	场
JLPT HSK 2

chǎng
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.

	境
JLPT HSK 3

jìng
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.

	地
JLPT HSK 3

de, dì
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.

	坏
JLPT HSK 3

huài
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.

	城
JLPT HSK 3

chéng
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.

	压
JLPT HSK 4

yā, yà
Cliff 厂 and earth 土 with emphasis 丶
At the cliff it affects the emphasized earth: The pressure.

	社
JLPT HSK 4

shè
Left: to show/altar 礻(=示 image of an altar 丁 with a sacrifice 一 and drippling blood 八), right: earth 土
He shows (points) to this earth. Here we found our society.

	幸
JLPT HSK 4

xìng
From top: earth 土, two drops 丶丶 and mirrored earth 干 (or variation of sheep: 羊)
Between two earths is the happiness.

	基
JLPT HSK 4

jī
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.

	肚
JLPT HSK 4

dǔ, dù
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.

	址
JLPT HSK 4

zhǐ
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.

	增
JLPT HSK 4

zēng
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.

	盐
JLPT HSK 4

yán
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.

	填
JLPT HSK 4

tián
Left: earth 土, right: really, truly 真 (The ten 十 eyes 目 see that 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.

	塑
JLPT HSK 4

sù
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.

	堵
JLPT HSK 4

dǔ
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.

	垃
JLPT HSK 4

lā
Left: earth, ground 土, right: to stand 立
It is the ground where it should stand: The trash.

	圾
JLPT HSK 4

jī
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.

	坚
JLPT HSK 4

jiān
Top: knife 刂 and hand 又, below: earth 土
With a knife in my hand I am on the earth: strong and resolute!

	土
JLPT HSK 5

tǔ

A cross 十 stands on the earth 一.

	域
JLPT HSK 5

yù
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.

	墙
JLPT HSK 5

qiáng
Left: earth 土, right: stingy 啬 (Variant of squeeze in 夹 [to squeeze 夹 = A husband 夫 between two persons 丷 (= 2x 人; cf: 薔) is squeezed] and return/revolve 回)
The earth is squeezing you in and revolving: at the wall.

	均
JLPT HSK 5

jūn
Left: earth 土, right: ladle 勺 with a bit more 丶ノ in it
The earth in the ladle is in the average.

	堆
JLPT HSK 5

duī
Left: earth 土, right: bird 隹
(never directly on the bare ground) The earth, on which a bird is sitting, is piled up.

	壁
JLPT HSK 5

bì
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.

	吐
JLPT HSK 5

tǔ, tù
Left: mouth 口, right: earth/ground 土
From his mouth to the ground he disgorged the vomit.

	型
JLPT HSK 5

xíng
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.

	尘
JLPT HSK 5

chén
Top: small 小, bottom: earth 土
The 'small earth' is the dust.

	坦
JLPT HSK 5

tǎn
Left: earth 土, right: sun rise 旦 (The sun 日 above the horizon 一)
The earth at the sunrise appears flat.

	塘
JLPT HSK 5

táng
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.

	培
JLPT HSK 5

péi
Left: earth 土, right: spit 咅 (stand 立 with open mouth 口 and spit)
On the earth it was spit and we started cultivating.

	坛
JLPT HSK 6

tán
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.

	堪
JLPT HSK 6

kān
Left: earth 土, right: extraordinary, extreme 甚 (A grain shovel 其 with an extra angle makes it very extraordinary)
Earth shows extreme endurance.

	墓
JLPT HSK 6

mù
Top: negative 莫 (sink, go down: plant 艹, sun 日, plant 艹 [sun setting between plants]), bottom: earth 土
Sinking among plants into the earth: into the grave.

	杜
JLPT HSK 6

dù
Left: tree 木, right: earth 土
A tree that is especially depending on the earth is the: pear tree.

	墨
JLPT HSK 6

mò
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.

	塞
JLPT HSK 6

sāi, sài, sè
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.

	堡
JLPT HSK 6

bǎo, bǔ, pù
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.

	疆
JLPT HSK 6

jiāng
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.

	坡
JLPT HSK 6

pō
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.

	圣
JLPT HSK 6

shèng
Top: hand 又, bottom: earth 土
The hand is vertically over an object when blessing it, thus when making it: 'holy'.

	庄
JLPT HSK 6

zhuāng
Left: building 广, below: earth 土
The building next to earth is: a farmstead.

	垂
JLPT HSK 6

chuí

A vehicle 車 with a loose tire that hangs down/droops.

	塔
JLPT HSK 6

tǎ
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.

	坑
JLPT HSK 6

kēng
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.

	坠
JLPT HSK 6

zhuì
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.

	垄
JLPT HSK 6

lǒng
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.

	坟
JLPT HSK 6

fén
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.

	埋
JLPT HSK 6

mái, mán
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.

	堂
JLPT HSK 6

táng
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!

	壤
JLPT HSK 6

rǎng
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.

	堤
JLPT HSK 6

dī
Left: earth 土, right: correct 是 (sun 日, variant of correct 正)
The earth is correctly (used) for a dike.

	塌
JLPT HSK 6

tā
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.

	垫
JLPT HSK 6

diàn
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.

	堕
JLPT HSK 6

duò, huī
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.

	灶
JLPT HSK 6

zào
Left: fire 火, right: earth 土
The fire on the ground is the kitchen stove.

	丧
JLPT HSK 6

sāng, sàng
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.

	坝
JLPT HSK 6

bà
Left: earth 土, right: money 贝/貝
You need earth and money for a dike.

	墅
JLPT HSK 6

shù
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.

	墟
JLPT HSK 6

xū
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.

	睦
JLPT HSK 6

mù
Left: eye 目, right: 坴 (eight 八, 2 x land 土)
The view on all that land is friendly and harmonious.

	陛
JLPT no HSK

bì
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.

	垮
JLPT no HSK

kuǎ
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.

	坪
JLPT no HSK

píng
Left: earth/ground 土, right: flat/plain 平
The ground has to be flat to measure one 'Píng'.

	垒
JLPT no HSK

lěi
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.

	坎
JLPT no HSK

kǎn
Left: earth 土, right: lack 欠 (A yawning person 人 is lacking sth.)
If earth is lacking, it becomes: bumpy.

	坤
JLPT no HSK

kūn
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)

	垣
JLPT no HSK

yuán
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)

	埃
JLPT no HSK

āi
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.

	牡
JLPT no HSK

mǔ
Left: cow 牛, right: earth 土
The cow on the ground is male.

	垦
JLPT no HSK

kěn
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.

	壕
JLPT no HSK

háo
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.

	埔
JLPT no HSK

pǔ
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.

	坊
JLPT no HSK

fāng
Left: earth/ground 土, right: direction/square 方
It's only made of earth and leads in one direction: The lane

	坞
JLPT no HSK

wù
Left: earth 土, right: bird 乌 (variation of bird 鸟/烏)
On the earth is a eye-less bird sitting on: the dock.

	垢
JLPT no HSK

gòu
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.

	圳
JLPT no HSK

zhèn
Left: earth 土, right: river 川
In the earth is this "river": A drainage ditch.

	堑
JLPT no HSK

qiàn
Top: chop 斩 (The vehicle 車 was chopped by an axe 斤.), bottom: earth 土
When 'chopping' the earth, you get: a moat.

	埠
JLPT no HSK

bù
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.

	堰
JLPT no HSK

yàn
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.

	坍
JLPT no HSK

tān
Left: earth 土, right: red, pellet 丹
At the earth (= the shore) is a broken 丹 boat 舟, because it collapsed.

	圭
JLPT no HSK

guī

Twice earth on top of each other 圭 as the image of a tablet. The radical has the meaning: piled earth

	墩
JLPT no HSK

dūn
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.

	逵
JLPT no HSK

kuí
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.

	坯
JLPT no HSK

pī
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).

	茬
JLPT no HSK

chá
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.

	塾
JLPT no HSK

shú
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.

	坷
JLPT no HSK

kě
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.

	壑
JLPT no HSK

hè
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.

	坂
JLPT no HSK

dà, bǎn
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.