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)
Kun Reading
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)
On Reading
土 | と to
土 | ど do
noun
: (Abbreviation) Saturday;
: earth (third of the five elements)
に ni
noun
: soil (esp. reddish soil)
