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  *土* | 土* | *土
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音
HSK 3
land / soil / territory / CL: , 塊|块
HSK 4
potato (CL:個|个) / (Tw) peanut (CL:顆|颗)
HSK 5
one's native country / native / local / metropolitan territory
HSK 6
concrete (building material)
HSK 7-9
to dig up / to appear in an excavation / unearthed / to come up out of the ground
HSK 7-9
country's territory / national land
HSK 7-9
territory
HSK 7-9
earth; soil; mud; clay
HSK 7-9
bandit
HSK 7-9
(idiom) (of people) born and raised in the locality; (of art forms, political parties, enterprises, products etc) developed locally from the outset; wholly indigenous
HSK 7-9
soil
HSK 7-9
Turkey
sandy soil
not acclimatized
to guard one's territory / to protect the country
isohumisol (soil taxonomy)
Datong Hui and Tu autonomous county in Xining 西寧|西宁, Qinghai
a slogan used in reference to a project to improve greenery in some parts of Northern China
(agriculture) loam / (literary) land; territory
Toulon (city in France)
red brick clay
to earth up
loess (yellow sandy soil typical of north China)
native soil / one's native land / one's hometown / local (to an area)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *土* | 土* | *土
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
territory
silt; silty soil
Tucson (city in Arizona)
building / construction / civil engineering
Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County in southeastern Chongqing 重慶|重庆
to break ground (prior to building sth) / to start building
alkaline earth (i.e. beryllium Be 鈹|铍, magnesium Mg 鎂|镁, calcium Ca 鈣|钙, strontium Sr 鍶|锶, barium Ba 鋇|钡 and radium Ra 鐳|镭)
clay
cubic meter of earth (unit of measurement) / excavated soil / earthwork (abbr. for 土方工程) / (TCM) folk remedy
earth God
excavated soil and rock / construction spoil
vernacular / slang / dialect / patois
local conditions and customs (idiom)
red soil / laterite
Putog, former county 1983-1999 in Zogang county 左貢縣|左贡县, Chamdo prefecture, Tibet
Sino-Turkish
homeland / hot piece of real estate
dust
native country; one's homeland
to bury / buried / interred
dirty soil / muck / trash
to plow (loosen the soil)
water and soil / surface water / natural environment (extended meaning) / climate
rare earth (chemistry)
Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, in Tongren City 銅仁市|铜仁市, Guizhou
heated brick common bed
Changyang Tujia Autonomous County in Hubei
native / aborigine / clay figure
to break ground / to start digging / to plough / to break through the ground (of seedling) / fig. the start of a building project
mound
Turkmen / (Tw, HK) Turkmenistan
(Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit)
sliced bread (loanword from "toast") / government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom) / fig. to regroup and come back even stronger / to make a comeback
topsoil
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated
Tucheng, a district of New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
land reform (abbr. for 土地改革)
Saturn (planet)
burial (in earth)
frozen earth / permafrost / tundra
rammed earth
kaolin (clay) / china clay
head and face filthy with grime (idiom) / covered in dirt / dejected and depressed
bulldozer
scorched earth
old-fashioned; unstylish
traditional Hakka communal residence in Fujian, typically a large multistory circular structure built around a central shrine
erhua variant of 炸土豆條|炸土豆条
(idiom) to expand one's territory; to conquer new lands; (fig.) to expand one's business into new markets
earth dam / dam of earth and rocks (as opposed to waterproof dam of clay or concrete)
dirty soil / dung and dirt / (fig.) worthless thing
dust / (soil taxonomy) spodosol
Tu or White Mongol ethnic group of Qinghai
potter's clay / kaolin
buried and at rest (idiom); Resquiescat in pacem (RIP)
dialect / patois
argosol (soil taxonomy)
lit. to squander money like dirt (idiom) / fig. to spend money like water / extravagant
free-range chicken
Rutog county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Ru thog rdzong
produced locally / local product (with distinctive native features)
homespun cloth
unsophisticated / rustic / uncouth
local produce
traditional method
local tyrant / local strong man / (slang) nouveau riche
to carry out large scale construction
mound / hillock / barrow
civil engineering / same as 土木工程
raw opium
topsoil / surface dust
aardwolf (Proteles cristatus), a small insectivorous relative of the hyena

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