Keyword
earth
Info
FrequencyTop 500-600
Type
Kyōiku (1st grade) 
?
KankenLevel 10
Heisig161
Readings
(67%)
つち
(18%)
(13%)
Composed of
ten
one
Mnemonic

A pictograph of a cross planted into the earth. The lower stroke is longer since it signifies the ground, or the horizon, which infinitely stretches in every direction.

Do not confuse with where the upper stroke is longer.

Used in kanji (151 in total)
life
location
ground
accomplished
king
presence
run
far
circumference
vigor
one more time
company
past
heat
castle
park
wall
break
vomit
increase
model
pressure
fundamental
assembly hall
border
apex
land
highness
region
building
smoke
to fill up (a hole)
boy
slope
tower
blockage
Buddhist temple
endure
paint
summarize
lump
grave
railing
salt
podium
firm
dust
design
monkey
equalize
loss of something dear
fence
fall into corruption
cram school
???
luxury
pile of (dirt)
fall down and crash
sitting around an earth pillar
pride
moat
friendly
wall fence
pull through
black ink
filth
square jewel
cultivate (an organism)
ruins
limits
male animal
mausoleum
embankment
pit
stuff something with
temple grove
base
manor
even
knead
diamond shape
dam
art [old]
trench (not filled with water)
small peninsula
imperial authority
lot
mustache
???
tomb
long kimono
to put in
???
two-mat area
piled high
wharf
???
groundbreaking
demolish
authochthonous
bottle of booze
???
fabrication
kitchen stove
???
crucible
field [old]
fortification
broad road
site
clay
stingy
pale
realm's border
pitfall
projecting tableland or mountain
hen coop
take form
staircase
Austria
shaft
???
whitewash
???
rice field dike
weakling
bank
???
???
???
claws
hardened dirt or clay
far
firing mound
close up
cemetery
anthill
go up
embankment
used in Chinese place names
???
brick
???
???
fortress embankment
???
archery target mound
black [old]
sacred
old grave
force of nature
Used in vocabulary (520 in total)
plot of land; lot; soil; locality; region; place
earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift
Examples (200 in total)
This house and this land are mine.
A part of this land is mine.
The most expensive thing is land.