# 基 — Foundation

Frequency rank 229 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 進 (Advance), less common than 及 (Reach).

- On’yomi: き
- Kun’yomi: もと、もとい
- Radical: 土 Earth (Kangxi 32)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX

The gravedigger hauls a live crab out of the wet dirt and mortars it into the corner of the pit, claws still working.

In words:

- 基 もと — basis
- 基づく もとづく — to be grounded on,to be based on,to be due to,to originate from
- 基本 きほん — foundation,basis,standard

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