Can anyone help me understand the memonic for this radical?

[wormonastringycheese]

I’m really struggling to picture this for some reason

[Leebo]

It’s a bit of a stretch since it’s not actually meant to look like a temple originally anyway. It just happens to mean temple (it’s a hand on the bottom with a phonetic symbol on the top that got simplified to 土 over time, so there’s no dirt relation originally or anything).

But I guess they’re trying to say you can try imagining one of these layered temples

Balancing on something below it.

[Belthazar]

Maybe something like this? This is one of the more famous buildings at Yama-dera in Yamagata Prefecture.

(Though the vertical stroke in the bottom half isn’t angled like I’ve drawn here.)

[plantron]

What’s interesting is that the traditional character has 士 - Jisho.org instead of 土 - Jisho.org at the top.

[polv]

I practically imagine like this.

[apaul]

I imagine a side on temple that is sitting on a hill like this

[wormonastringycheese]

This is really helpful thank you so much <3

[wormonastringycheese]

Ah that photo specifically is helping me picture it a lot better for some reason. Thank you!!