Foundation

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

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

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 basisN3

基づくもとづく to be grounded on,to be based on,to be due to,to originate fromN3

基本きほん foundation,basis,standardN3

基 is rank 229 of 2,608 in published Japanese.