埼 means “cape, Saitama”

さい · sai

Also: spit, promontory

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

さき, さい, みさき

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

キ

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The story

Earth (土) beside 奇, strange: picture an odd spit of land poking out to sea. 埼 means a cape, as in 犬吠埼, where Chiba juts into the Pacific, but you meet it most in 埼玉, Saitama, the prefecture just north of Tokyo.

Used in 埼玉 (saitama, Saitama) and 犬吠埼 (inubousaki, Cape Inubo)

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