Entry
  1. Noun

    ground; land; earth; soil

    雨降って地固まる。
    Adversity strengthens the foundations.
  2. the region in question; the local area

  3. skin

  4. texture; fabric; material; weave

  5. base; background

  6. one's true nature

  7. narrative (i.e. descriptive part of a story)

  8. real life; actuality

  9. territory

    Go (game)

  10. noh chorus

    see 地謡

  11. accompaniment music (in Japanese dance)

  12. basic phrase (in Japanese music; usu. repetitive)

  13. base part (of multiple shamisens)

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

ground, earth

On
Strokes
6
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N4
Frequency
40 of 2500
Radical
earth
WaniKani
Level 6

Built from

Used in names as

どま

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
1-3-3SKIP code
3b3.1The Kanji Dictionary
4411.2Four corner code
1456deroo
5730Unicode hex code
1-35-47JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1056Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
976New Nelson (John Haig)
204New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
236Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
152Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
181Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
515Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
554Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
40A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
241Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
143Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
4890Morohashi
167A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
118Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
118Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
111sakade
143Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
184henshall3
130Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
45crowley
146Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.1busy_people
367Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
521Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
di4, de5Pinyin reading
jiKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
6WaniKani level