Not used in modern Chinese; it is the ancient form of 野 (open country), kept only in old inscriptions and as a rare surname. It stacks the forest 林 over the earth 土 — woodland and ground, the wild.
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Forest 林 sitting on the earth 土 is a clear picture of untamed open land — the meaning that later moved into the everyday character 野.
The earth radical at the base. It anchors the word to open ground, so forest plus earth reads as the wild, grouping it with land characters like 地 and 场.
