土

土 (radical 32, 土+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 土 (G), four-corner 4010₀, composition ⿱十一)

1. Kangxi radical #32, ⼟.

• Index:Chinese radical/土
• 𫡢, 吐, 𡚳, 𢎳, 𢓂, 𪫞, 扗, 汢, 肚, 杜, 𣧅, 灶, 牡, 𤣰, 社, 𨑒, 𥃾, 𥝟, 𬡃, 𫊥, 䝅, 𧺔, 𮛄, 𨑡, 釷(钍), 靯, 𩡶, 𩵚(𬶂), 𪐢
• 凷, 𫧀, 𫲵, 尘, 庄, 𢨫, 芏, 𭎊, 𦉷, 𥤧, 㽵, 𥫦, 𮓛, 䦌(𮤬), 𫕞, 𭎭, 𩫽, 𤍢, 𪔋, 去, 𠮷, 𡕟, 寺, 𢖽, 𭟯, 灻, 𫅢, 𮤇, 𪔄, 𪔌

• KangXi: page 223, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4867
• Dae Jaweon: page 453, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 415, character 1
• Unihan data for U+571F

Historical forms of the character 土
Shang	Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) : a lump of clay on a potter’s wheel.

土

1. earth; soil

   這兒的土夠肥的。 / 这儿的土够肥的。  ―  Zhèr de tǔ gòu féi de.  ―  The soil here is quite fertile.

2. clay
3. crude opium
4. dust
5. (Teochew) ground
6. local; native; indigenous

   土著  ―  tǔzhù  ―  aboriginal

7. rustic; unsophisticated

   我覺得東北話實在太土了。 [MSC, trad.]
   我觉得东北话实在太土了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ juéde dōngběihuà shízài tài tǔ le. [Pinyin]

   I think that Northeastern Mandarin is too rustic.

8. the Tujia ethnic group (土家族 (Tǔjiāzú))
9. the Tu ethnic group; Monguor people; White Mongol (土族 (tǔzú))
10. A surname​.

土

1. ^† Alternative form of 杜 (dù, “root”).

   • 迨天之未陰雨、徹彼桑土、綢繆牖戶。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     迨天之未阴雨、彻彼桑土、绸缪牖户。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Dài tiān zhī wèi yīnyǔ, chè bǐ sāngdù, chóumóu yǒuhù. [Pinyin]

     Before the sky was dark with rain,
     I gathered the roots of the mulberry tree,
     And bound round and round my window and door.

2. ^† An ancient river.

土

1. ^† Only used in 土苴 (chǎzhǎ).

土

1. Only used in 土門／土门 (Túmén).

• “Entry #192”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: つ (tsu)
• Kan-on: と (to, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: ど (do, Jōyō)
• Kun: つち (tsuchi, 土, Jōyō)
• Nanori: ひじ (hiji)

From Old Japanese.[1][2]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) つち​ [tsùchíꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[2][3]
  • IPA^(key): [t͡sɨ̥ᵝt͡ɕi]

• 地

土 (hiragana つち, rōmaji tsuchi)

1. earth; soil; mud
2. the ground

• 土 (つち)狼 (おおかみ) (tsuchiōkami, “aardwolf”)
• 土 (つち)豚 (ぶた) (tsuchibuta, “aardvark”)
• 土 (つち)を踏 (ふ)む (tsuchi o fumu, “enter the foreign country”)
• 真 (ま)土 (つち) (matsuchi, “good quality soil suitable for cultivation”)

Derived from Japanese 土耳古 (Toruko, “Turkey”)

土 (hiragana と, rōmaji To)

1. (abbreviation) short notation of Turkey

土 (eumhun 흙 토 (heuk to))

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• 土曜日 (toyoil): Saturday.

土 • (to) (hangeul 토)

1. earth
2. (as an abbreviation) Saturday

土 (eumhun 뿌리 두 (ppuri du))

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土: Hán Việt readings: thổ (他(tha)魯(lỗ)切(thiết))[1][2][3]
土: Nôm readings: thổ[1][2][4], độ[2], thuở[2]

1. Hán tự form of thổ (“earth; soil; land”).