Earth radical 土 (tǔ): 54 characters

body{font-family:sans-serif;max-width:860px;margin:40px auto;padding:0 20px;color:#1a1a2e}Earth radical 土 (tǔ): 54 characters土 (tǔ) is Kangxi radical no. 32, “earth”. In this form it is written with 3 strokes.土 (tǔ) stands for soil and ground: places, walls, piles of earth and the things built on them.The characters range from 3 to 20 strokes. 6 of them already appear in HSK 3.0 levels 1–2, and 6 have a full word page of their own.Good ones to start with: 在 (zài) be at / in / at, 块 (kuài) yuan (money) / piece, 坐 (zuò) sit / ride, 地 (dì) earth / ground / place.Characters with this radical3 strokes

土 (tǔ) - earth / soil / ground

5 strokes

圣 (shèng) - holy, sacred

6 strokes

在 (zài) - be at / in / at

场 (chǎng) - (measure word for events, games, shows)

地 (dì) - earth / ground / place

圾 (jī) - garbage, rubbish

7 strokes

块 (kuài) - yuan (money) / piece

坐 (zuò) - sit / ride

坏 (huài) - bad / broken / evil

坚 (jiān) - strong

址 (zhǐ) - site

均 (jūn) - equal

坛 (tán) - platform

坝 (bà) - dam

坟 (fén) - grave

坑 (kēng) - pit

坠 (zhuì) - to fall

8 strokes

垃 (lā) - garbage, refuse, trash, waste

垂 (chuí) - to hang (down)

坡 (pō) - slope

坪 (píng) - a plain

坦 (tǎn) - flat

9 strokes

城 (chéng) - city walls

型 (xíng) - mold

垫 (diàn) - pad

垦 (kěn) - to reclaim

垮 (kuǎ) - to collapse (lit. or fig.)

垒 (lěi) - rampart

10 strokes

埋 (mái) - to bury

11 strokes

堵 (dǔ) - to block up (a road, pipe etc)

基 (jī) - base

堂 (táng) - (main) hall

堆 (duī) - to pile up

培 (péi) - to cultivate, to farm

域 (yù) - field

堕 (duò) - to fall

12 strokes

塔 (tǎ) - pagoda

堡 (bǎo) - fortress

堤 (dī) - dike

堪 (kān) - to endure

13 strokes

塑 (sù) - to model in clay

填 (tián) - to fill or stuff

塞 (sāi) - to stop up

墓 (mù) - grave

塌 (tā) - to collapse

塘 (táng) - pond, tank

14 strokes

境 (jìng) - boundary, frontier

墙 (qiáng) - variant of , wall

墅 (shù) - villa

墟 (xū) - high mound

15 strokes

增 (zēng) - (bound form) to increase

墨 (mò) - ink stick

16 strokes

壁 (bì) - wall

20 strokes

壤 (rǎng) - soil

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Radicals and component data: Make Me a Hanzi by Shaunak Kishore (dictionary.txt, derived from Unihan and CJKlib), used under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later. Make Me a Hanzi LGPL v3

Stroke counts: Make Me a Hanzi graphics.txt, derived from the Arphic PL KaitiM GB and Arphic PL UKai fonts by Arphic Technology, under the Arphic Public License - the same stroke data the animations use. Arphic Public License