土

soil, earth; items made of earth; surname Tu; Tu ethnic group; earth; dust; clay; local

Strokes
3
Pinyin
tǔ

Parts

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Words with 土

  1. 中土zhōng tǔ · zhongtuChina-Turkey; Sino-Turkish; (literary) the Central Plains of China; (literary) China
  2. 五行wǔ xíng · wuxingfive phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水
  3. 入土rù tǔ · rututo bury; buried; interred
  4. 八音bā yīn · bayinancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲|丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹); the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories; music
  5. 冻土dòng tǔ · dongtufrozen earth; permafrost; tundra
  6. 出土chū tǔ · chututo dig up; to appear in an excavation; unearthed
  7. 动土dòng tǔ · dongtuto break ground (prior to building sth); to start building
  8. 吃土chī tǔ · chitu(neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)
  9. 后土hòu tǔ · houtuEarth Deity (often paired with 皇天[Huang2 tian1], August Heaven)
  10. 国土guó tǔ · guotucountry's territory; national land
  11. 土丘tǔ qiū · tuqiumound; hillock; barrow
  12. 土人tǔ rén · turennative; aborigine; clay figure
  13. 土伦tǔ lún · tulunToulon (city in France)
  14. 土共tǔ gòng · tugong(coll.) commie (derog., used by the KMT); CCP, the party of the people (used by CCP supporters); pro-Beijing camp (HK)
  15. 土匪tǔ fěi · tufeibandit
  16. 土司tǔ sī · tusisliced bread (loanword from "toast"); government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
  17. 土器tǔ qì · tuqiearthenware
  18. 土地tǔ dì · tudiland; soil; territory
  19. 土坎tǔ kǎn · tukanearthen levee
  20. 土坯tǔ pī · tupimud brick; adobe; unfired earthenware
  21. 土埂tǔ gěng · tugengembankment between fields
  22. 土堆tǔ duī · tuduimound
  23. 土墼tǔ jī · tujisun-dried mudbrick; adobe brick
  24. 土壤tǔ rǎng · turangsoil
  25. 土坝tǔ bà · tubaearth dam; dam of earth and rocks (as opposed to waterproof dam of clay or concrete)
  26. 土家tǔ jiā · tujiaTujia ethnic group
  27. 土层tǔ céng · tucenglayer of soil; ground level
  28. 土岗tǔ gǎng · tugangmound; hillock
  29. 土布tǔ bù · tubuhomespun cloth
  30. 土库tǔ kù · tukuTuku town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县[Yun2 lin2 xian4], Taiwan

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Data from JMdict, KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG), KanjiVG, CC-CEDICT and Make Me a Hanzi. Sources and licences