Character · Places
地
じ jiじとう jitōいじ iji
ground, earth
Composition
Origin
The earth 土 gives the meaning and 也 the sound: the ground that bears all things.
In the thoughts
- 地頭jitōlocal lord
- 意地ijiwill, stubbornness
Proverbs carrying this character
- 077 雨降って地固まる After the rain, the ground hardens.
- 266 泣く子と地頭には勝てぬ Against a crying child and a local lord, no one wins.
- 294 智に働けば角が立つ。情に棹させば流される。意地を通せば窮屈だ。 Act on reason, and you grow sharp-cornered. Pole along feeling, and you are swept away. Force your will, and you are cramped. Decidedly, the human world is hard to live in.