土 tǔ
noun | radical 32
: earth; dust; clay
: local; indigenous
: crude opium
: unsophisticated
: one of the eight ancient musical instruments 八音 ba1yin made of eight different materials (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹)
土 | つち tsuchi
noun
: earth; soil; dirt
: the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; the land
: low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud)
: (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in On’youdou)
土 | と to
土 | ど do
noun
: (Abbreviation) Saturday;
: earth (third of the five elements)
に ni
noun
: soil (esp. reddish soil)
土地 tu3di4: local god; plot of land; soil; territory [とち tochi]
土地公 tu3di4 gong1: the (local) God of earth
土人tu3ren2: native; aborigine; clay figure
[どじん dojin: natives; aborigines]
土壤 tu3rang3: soil [土壌 | どじょう dojou]
土丘 tu3qiu1: mound; hillock; barrow
土匪 tu3fei3: bandit [どひ dohi: local rebels]
土包子 tu3 bao1 zi: country bumpkin; boor; unsophisticated country person (humble, applied to oneself); burial mound
土木工程 tu3 mu4 gong1 cheng2: civil engineering
[土木工学 | どぼくこうがく doboku kougaku]
土豚 tu3tun: aardvark [つちぶた tsuchibuta]
土豬 tu3 zhu1: aardvark
土豆 tu3dou4: potato; peanut
土司 tu3si1: (loanword toast) sliced bread
領[领]土 ling3tu3: territory
[りょうど ryoudo: dominion; territory; possession]
塵[尘]土 chen2tu3: dust
本土 ben3tu3: one’s native country; native; local; metropolitan territory
[ほんど hondo: mainland; one’s home country]
泥土 ni2tu3: earth; soil; mud [でいど deido: mud]
土曜日 tu3yao4ri4: Saturday (used in ancient Chinese astronomy)
[どようび doyoubi]
Japanese common word / expression / idiom
土日月 | どにちげつ donichigetsu: Saturday, Sunday and Monday
冥土の土産 | めいどのみやげ meido no miyage
: pleasant memory to take to the afterlife; good memory; something that makes one feel one can die in peace
Chinese idiom
入土為[为]安 ru4 tu3 wei2 an1
: buried and at rest: Resquiescat in pacem (RIP)
象形 Pictographic.
A mound 十 (shi2: ten) on the ground 一 (yi1: one)
“Earth” radical #32.
土 + 土 = 圭 gui1: jade tablet
Examples:
蚯蚓生活在土中。
qiu1yin3 sheng1huo2 zai4 tu3 zhong1.
Earthworms live in the soil (earth)
Resources: Chinese Dictionary | Japanese Dictionary
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