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land / soil / territory / CL: , 塊|块
HSK 4
potato (CL:個|个) / (Tw) peanut (CL:顆|颗)
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *土* | 土* | *土
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音
HSK 3
one's native country / native / local / metropolitan territory
HSK 6
to dig up / to appear in an excavation / unearthed / to come up out of the ground
HSK 7-9
land reform
local god / genius loci
soil
HSK 7-9
Tucson (city in Arizona)
country's territory / national land
HSK 7-9
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated
(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
concrete (building material)
HSK 7-9
civil engineering
indigenous person / aboriginal
Sino-Turkish
lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom) / fig. to regroup and come back even stronger / to make a comeback
Tudi Gong, the local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion)
(Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit)
native soil / one's native land / one's hometown / local (to an area)
frozen earth / permafrost / tundra
(US) Department of Homeland Security
(of a stranger) not accustomed to the climate of a new place / not acclimatized
burial (in earth)
to carry out large scale construction
natural conditions and social customs of a place / local conditions
dialect / patois
duty to defend the country (idiom)
earth; soil; mud; clay
HSK 7-9
land is extremely expensive (in that area) (idiom)
Turkey
territory
HSK 7-9
native dog / mole cricket (colloquial word for agricultural pest Gryllotalpa 螻蛄|蝼蛄)
layer of soil / ground level
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
land reform (abbr. for 土地改革)
(Tw) debris flow / mudslide
waste soil (excavation waste, contaminated soil etc) / (post-apocalyptic) wasteland
Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County in Chongqing 重慶|重庆
(idiom) to expand one's territory; to conquer new lands; (fig.) to expand one's business into new markets
bandit
HSK 7-9
land resources
bulldozer
native country; one's homeland
territory
local produce
cheesy pick-up lines
Datong Hui and Tu autonomous county in Xining 西寧|西宁, Qinghai
reinforced concrete
mound
local tyrant / local strong man / (slang) nouveau riche
dirt road
ashen-faced (idiom)
domestic and foreign
building / construction / civil engineering
raw opium
red brick clay
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *土* | 土* | *土
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
aboriginal
heated brick common bed
aardvark
lit. to squander money like dirt (idiom) / fig. to spend money like water / extravagant
the East / China
mashed potato
ground beetle / (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海歸|海归, has never studied overseas / (dialect) country bumpkin
(neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)
rare earth (chemistry)
rare earth element (chemistry)
vernacular / slang / dialect / patois
Turkish (language)
loess landform
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
moist, newly-tilled soil
Tuku town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
combining native and foreign methods
local tyrant
sliced bread (loanword from "toast") / government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
to collapse / to fall apart
rammer / tamper
happy place; paradise; haven
homeland security
(TCM) folk remedy
excavated soil and rock / construction spoil
julienned potato
Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in Hubei Province 湖北省
not acclimatized
Pure Land Buddhism
land auction; to sell land at auction (abbr. for 土地拍賣|土地拍卖)
Titan (moon of Saturn), aka Saturn VI
homemade / earthen
Tudou, a Chinese video-sharing website
rare earth element
red soil / laterite
(zoology) marmot (in the US, esp. groundhog or woodchuck)
unsophisticated / rustic / uncouth
to localize / localization
civil engineering / same as 土木工程
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated
dust
sandy soil

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