Pronunciation & meaning
- Pronunciation
Mandarinㄊㄨˇ tǔ
Cantonesetou2
Taiwanesethóo
- Meaning
- soil, earth; items made of earth
- Kangxi Radical
- 土 · 3 strokes
Common words
- 土地tǔ dìland; soil
- 土壤tǔ rǎngsoil
- 領土lǐng tǔterritory
- 土司tǔ sīsliced bread (loanword from "toast"); government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
- 國土guó tǔcountry's territory; national land
- 出土chū tǔto dig up; to appear in an excavation
- 黃土huáng tǔloess (yellow sandy soil typical of north China)
- 混凝土hùn níng tǔconcrete (building material)
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