地 — how to write the kanji for “ground”

地 (“ground” and “earth”) is a JLPT N4 kanji taught in second grade in Japan. In newspapers it is one of the hundred most used kanji (40th). Its parts sit side by side: 土 (“soil”, its radical), strokes 1–3; 也 (“to be (classical)”), strokes 4–6, each finished before the next. On its own it is the word chi, “earth; ground”. Its common words take the reading chi: 土地 (“plot of land”), 地区 (“district”), 地域 (“area”) and 地方 (“district”). Chinese reads it dì, “earth”, at HSK 2.

Strokes

6

JLPT

N4

Radical

土 (“soil”)

On

チ, ジ