What are the radicals that make up 地? What are the radicals that make up the character "地"?

Just from looking at it, it looks like "土" and "也" but "也" is a word not a radical.

MDBG also has this  break down, and in turn breaks "也" down to the "line" radical ("丨") and "乜" but as far as I can tell and also according to MDBG, "乜" isn't a radical or made up of radicals.

To return to my question: What are the radicals that make up the character "地"?



The context to this is that I have just started using mnemonic stories to help me learn new words and their characters. This question has come up with 地球, which means "Earth".

My current mnenomic story uses:


地: soil, "also"
球: king, demand


And so I have, "the soil was also the king's demand". But I'd rather use the canonical radicals and learn things properly!
地, the radical is 土.

It is made up of two parts, 土 and 也.

It is 形声字（Phono-semantic compound characters）, which means it is made up of two parts, one shows it meaning, the other shows its sound. According to 说文解字 tab in zdic, 也 is the sound part, though 也 and 地 sound very differently now:


  元气初分，輕清陽爲天，重濁陰爲地。萬物所陳也。从土也聲。墬，籒文地从■。徒内切〖注〗埊、■、嶳、埅，亦古文地。


■ is a character that cannot be displayed here. Please check the site of zdic

球 is also a 形声字. The 王 part (which is the radical) carries the meaning, which was originally 玉 (jade), and the 求 part carries the sound.