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地面

じめん

surface, ground

Mnemonic

Earth on the left and the face of a thing. Not the soil and not the planet: the flat top of it, which is what you land on. Gee じ, and the same men めん as 面: じめん.

Worth knowing

地 reads ち on its own meaning ground, and じ in compounds like this one.

Built from

ground, earth
土 earth on the left. The ground itself, and by extension a place on it.
face, surface
A pictograph, a face inside its outline.

Words sharing these kanji

ground, place underground above ground hell interesting, amusing annoying, troublesome serious, earnest surface, aspect

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