地

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ground

On-Yomi: チ、ジ

Elements:

ground, soil, dirt, ground, scorpion

Primitive:

scorpion -- This primitive is a pictograph of the scorpion, the first 2 strokes representing its head and pincers, the last stroke its barbed tail, in which you may recognize the fishhook. [3]

Heisig story:

Soil and a scorpion (an "earth animal"). This is, of course, the full character from which the primitive for ground derives.

Koohii stories:

1) [fuaburisu] 10-10-2005(161): Picture the ground as an extent of soil where scorpions are buried like land mines. Imagine a sign post saying 'no trespassing, scorpion mines' if that helps, and how it is dangerous to walk there.

2) [bigspenderJ] 7-2-2007(77): The soil is littered with scorpions everywhere and no ones dares put their foot on the ground.

3) [harhol] 10-5-2009(46): The DIRT SCORPION is a ground-type pokémon.

4) [Thora] 31-1-2008(22): You can't escape the scorpions on the ground by jumping into the pond 池 - scorpions like both soil and water!

5) [mhheie] 19-2-2008(18): Ground Zero, after the bombings, only scorpions could live there.

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