塁 means “base (baseball), rampart”

るい · rui

Also: bases, fort, walls

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading): とりで
On'yomi (Chinese reading): ルイ, ライ, スイ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 12 strokes

The story

Earth (土) heaped beneath a field (田): the old form stacked three 田, a rampart of piled stone and soil. In Japan 塁 is mostly baseball, each base a little fort to hold: 満塁 is bases loaded, and 本塁打, a hit to home base, is a home run.

Used in 本塁打 (honruida, home run), 満塁 (manrui, bases loaded), and 盗塁 (tourui, stolen base)

塁 means “base (baseball), rampart”

The story

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