Radical 32


Radical 32 or radical earth meaning "earth" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals composed of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 580 characters to be found under this radical.
土 is also the 29th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Kangxi radical 33 is merged to this radical as an associated indexing component of the principal indexing component 土 in mainland China.
In the Chinese wuxing, 土 represents the element earth.

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As an independent character it is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji.

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