土
Soil
| on’yomi | kun’yomi | Radicals |
|---|---|---|
| ど | つち | 土 |
Meaning: Soil
The radical grave makes up the entirety of this kanji. In a grave, it’s filled in with one thing, soil.
Imagine yourself filling up a grave, shoveling in shovelfuls of soil. It’s sad business, especially since you’re burying someone/something really important to you :( In your imagination, smell the soil that you’re scooping in. Touch it and feel it too. Using more of your senses (even in your imagination) will help you to remember the meaning of this kanji (and any kanji) more effectively.
Reading: ど
As you’re burying this important thing with soil, a dog runs up and starts unburying it, very frantically. You try to stop it, but it snarls and snaps at you and tries to get you to back up. Turns out, the dog keeps digging past your buried object, and unburies a ghost dog, which jumps out and takes over your body. Feel what a dog feels, because you’ve just been taken over.
Make sure you remember all the mnemonics in order as sort of a progression of one story. They connect to each other because it’s easier to remember things that connect / continue. So if you remember the pieces as a whole you’re more likely to remember all the things you need to remember!
Vocabulary
Learn the vocab word before moving on. It’s just one, mmk?
a 土（つち）＝ Earth, Soil, Ground
- Meaning: This is the same as the kanji.
- Reading: Also the same as the kanji, though because it’s alone it’s the kun’yomi reading.