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地下

ちか

underground

Mnemonic

Under the ground, which is where they have put the studio. Down the stairs and keep going, past the chicken ちか wire: ちか.

Built from

ground, earth
土 earth on the left. The ground itself, and by extension a place on it.
under, below
A mark sitting below the line, the mirror of 上.

Words sharing these kanji

surface, ground ground, place above ground hell under, below under (the supervision of) to go down, to come down hallway to come down, to hang down, to fall subordinate to lower, to turn down to look down, to overlook

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