soil, earth; items made of earth

HSK 5 #515

DEFINITIONS

土 tǔ
  • Tu (ethnic group)
  • surname Tu
  • earth
  • dust
  • clay
  • local
  • indigenous
  • crude opium
  • unsophisticated
  • one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

STROKES

WORDS

地 tǔ dì land; soil; territory; CL:片[pian4],塊|块[kuai4]
地 tǔ di local god; genius loci
豆 tǔ dòu potato; CL:個|个[ge4]; (Tw) peanut; CL:顆|颗[ke1]
lǐng tǔ territory
壤 tǔ rǎng soil
人情 fēng tǔ rén qíng local conditions and customs (idiom)
guó tǔ country's territory; national land
耳其 tǔ ěr qí Turkey
ní tǔ earth; soil; mud; clay
běn tǔ one's native country; native; local; metropolitan territory
chén tǔ dust
混凝 hùn níng tǔ concrete
豆泥 tǔ dòu ní mashed potato
司 tǔ sī sliced bread (loanword from "toast"); government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
匪 tǔ fěi bandit
rù tǔ to bury; buried; interred
重来 juǎn tǔ chóng lái lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom); fig. to regroup and come back even stronger; to make a comeback
机 tuī tǔ jī bulldozer
拨鼠 tǔ bō shǔ groundhog
长 tǔ shēng tǔ zhǎng locally born and bred; indigenous; home-grown
lè tǔ happy place; paradise; haven
包子 tǔ bāo zi country bumpkin; boor; unsophisticated country person (humble, applied to oneself); burial mound
星 tǔ xīng Saturn (planet)
耳其人 tǔ ěr qí rén a Turk; Turkish person
人 tǔ rén native; aborigine; clay figure
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