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HSK
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
produced locally / local product (with distinctive native features)
local god / genius loci
soil
HSK 7-9
Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County, in Yichang City 宜昌市, Hubei
Tucson (city in Arizona)
country's territory / national land
HSK 7-9
halosol (soil taxonomy)
concrete (building material)
HSK 7-9
civil engineering
land resources
indigenous person / aboriginal
Sino-Turkish
Tudi Gong, the local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion)
territory
HSK 7-9
(of a stranger) not accustomed to the climate of a new place / not acclimatized
burial (in earth)
homeland security
free-range chicken
(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
vernacular / slang / dialect / patois
earth; soil; mud; clay
HSK 7-9
land is extremely expensive (in that area) (idiom)
combining native and foreign methods (idiom); sophisticated and many-sided
Turkey
native dog / mole cricket (colloquial word for agricultural pest Gryllotalpa 螻蛄|蝼蛄)
land reform (abbr. for 土地改革)
(Tw) debris flow / mudslide
local bosses, shady gentry (idiom); dominant local mafia
bandit
HSK 7-9
native country; one's homeland
territory
dust
mound
local tyrant / local strong man / (slang) nouveau riche
dirt road
ashen-faced (idiom)
domestic and foreign
building / construction / civil engineering
(zoology) marmot (in the US, esp. groundhog or woodchuck)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *土* | 土* | *土
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
aboriginal
heated brick common bed
aardvark
excavator / backhoe
frozen earth / permafrost / tundra
mashed potato
(neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)
happy place; paradise; haven
rare earth (chemistry)
rare earth element (chemistry)
pedology (soil study)
moist, newly-tilled soil
reinforced concrete
local tyrant
sliced bread (loanword from "toast") / government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
cheesy pick-up lines
earthen kiln / loess cave
to collapse / to fall apart
permafrost
(TCM) folk remedy
local wealthy landlord / country money-bags / rich provincial
clay ox, wooden horse (idiom); shape without substance / worthless object
excavated soil and rock / construction spoil
Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in Hubei Province 湖北省
excavator
not acclimatized
land auction; to sell land at auction (abbr. for 土地拍賣|土地拍卖)
(Tw) Spanish mackerel
homemade / earthen
(idiom) to expand one's territory; to conquer new lands; (fig.) to expand one's business into new markets
to localize / localization
civil engineering / same as 土木工程
Titan (moon of Saturn), aka Saturn VI
sandy soil
bentonite (mineralogy)
loess landform
Tudou, a Chinese video-sharing website
ground beetle / (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海歸|海归, has never studied overseas / (dialect) country bumpkin
layer of soil / ground level
mound / hillock / barrow
native / aborigine / clay figure
sun-dried mudbrick; adobe brick
Turkmenistan
native state (term used by British Colonial power to refer to independent states of India or Africa)
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated
to heap earth (to close a tomb) / a mound (covering a tomb)
dirty soil / muck / trash
Australia (slang term reflecting a perception of Australia as something of a backwater)
julienned potato
homeland / hot piece of real estate
natural conditions and social customs of a place / local conditions
mud brick / adobe / unfired earthenware
traditional method
(agriculture) loam / (literary) land; territory

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