a clod of earth

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

圥 sound component

  Sound component

  

mushroom

Evolution

坴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
坴 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

a clod of earth; land

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (2 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5774

Shuowen

“坴,土塊坴坴也。从土,圥聲。讀若逐。一曰坴梁。”


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