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Area Earth Soil Underground Ground Place Land Home

Kanji
Onyomi チ、ジ
Nanori どま
English ground, earth
Examples 現地(げんち): actual place; local; on-site
地域(ちいき): area; region
地球(ちきゅう): the earth; the globe
地元(じもと): (1) home area; home town (2) local
地方(ちほう): (1) area; locality; district; region; province (2) countryside; rural area (3) coast (esp. as seen from the water) (4) person singing ballads in noh; person in charge of music in a Japanese dance performance
土地(とち): plot of land; lot; soil
基地(きち): base
地震(じしん): earthquake
地(ち): (1) earth; ground; land; soil (2) place (3) territory (4) bottom (of a package, book, etc.) (5) earth (one of the five elements)
地位(ちい): (social) position; status
地下(ちか): (1) basement; cellar; underground place (2) underground; below ground (3) secret; under cover (4) underground (railway); subway; metro
地帯(ちたい): area; zone; belt (of land)
地下鉄(ちかてつ): underground train; subway
地図(ちず): map
地点(ちてん): site; point on a map; spot
敷地(しきち): site; plot; lot; grounds
余地(よち): place; room; margin; scope
産地(さんち): producing area
植民地(しょくみんち): (1) colony (2) colonial
農地(のうち): agricultural land
団地(だんち): multi-unit apartments
地獄(じごく): hell
墓地(ぼち): cemetery; graveyard
地味(じみ): plain; simple; subdued; sober
地理(ちり): geography
意地(いじ): disposition; spirit; willpower; obstinacy; backbone; appetite
地面(じめん): ground; earth's surface
生地(きじ): (1) cloth; material; texture (2) one's true character (3) unglazed pottery (4) uncooked dough; batter
見地(けんち): point of view
心地(ここち): (1) feeling; sensation; mood (2) sensation of doing (usu. after -masu stem of verb)
地形(ちけい): terrain; geographical features; topography
地主(じぬし): landlord; landowner
地名(ちめい): place name
遊園地(ゆうえんち): amusement park
地質(ちしつ): geological features
盆地(ぼんち): basin (e.g. between mountains)
地区(ちく): district; section; sector
地盤(じばん): stronghold; base; (the) ground
地下水(ちかすい): underground water
地平線(ちへいせん): horizon (related to land)
下地(したじ): groundwork; foundation; inclination; aptitude; elementary knowledge of; grounding in; prearrangement; spadework; signs; symptoms; first coat of plastering; soy
天地(てんち): (1) heaven and earth; the universe; nature; top and bottom; realm; sphere; world (2) top and bottom (3) gods of heaven and earth
無地(むじ): plain; unfigured
意地悪(いじわる): malicious; ill-tempered; unkind
番地(ばんち): house number; address
各地(かくち): every place; various places
耕地(こうち): arable land
領地(りょうち): territory; dominion; grounds (e.g. school)
畑地(はたち): farmland
JLPT Level 4
Jouyou Grade 2
Frequency 40
Components 土: soil; earth; ground; Turkey
也: to be (classical)
Number of Strokes 6
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 32
Radical Strokes 3
Radical Reading つち・つちへん・どへん
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 形声 Phonetic
Keyword ground
Koohii Story 1 Picture the ground as an extent of soil where scorpions are buried like land mines. Imagine a sign post saying ´no trespassing, scorpion mines´ if that helps, and how it is dangerous to walk there.
Koohii Story 2 The soil is littered with scorpions everywhere and no ones dares put their foot on the ground.

Tags: jlpt.n4, grade2, kanjifreq1-250, kanji_nature_substance

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