土
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earth; dust; clay; local; indigenous; crude opium; unsophisticated; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 土 itself
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 土
- Common rank
- #225
- Unicode
- U+571F
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Formation & memory
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Words with 土
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 长阳土家族自治县 | Changyang Tujia Autonomous County, in Yichang City 宜昌市[Yi2 chang1 Shi4], Hubei | |
| 有机土 | histosol (soil taxonomy) | |
| 土地公 | Tudi Gong, the local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion) | |
| 日土县 | Rutog, a county in Ngari Prefecture 阿里地區|阿里地区[A1 li3 Di4 qu1], Tibet | |
| 土城区 | Tucheng, a district of New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 Shi4], Taiwan | |
| 大通回族土族自治县 | Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County, in Xining City 西寧市|西宁市[Xi1 ning2 Shi4], Qinghai | |
| 风土人情 | local conditions and customs (idiom) | |
| 土地神 | local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion) (same as 土地公|土地公[Tu3 di4 Gong1]) | |
| 土方子 | (TCM) folk remedy | |
| 国土安全 | homeland security | |
| 土人 | native; aborigine; clay figure | |
| 国土 | country's territory; national land | |
| 水土 | water and soil; surface water; natural environment (extended meaning); climate | |
| 中土 | China-Turkey; Sino-Turkish | |
| 中土 | (literary) the Central Plains of China; (literary) China | |
| 三合土 | traditional Chinese building material made by mixing three components (typically lime, cla… | |
| 心土 | subsoil | |
| 生土 | (agr.) immature soil; virgin soil | |
| 土地 | land; soil; territory; CL:片[pian4],塊|块[kuai4] | |
| 土地 | local god; genius loci |
Sound family
These characters use 土 as their sound component — compare how they read.