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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
country's territory / national land
HSK 7-9
concrete (building material)
HSK 7-9
Sino-Turkish
(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
(of a stranger) not accustomed to the climate of a new place / not acclimatized
natural conditions and social customs of a place / local conditions
earth; soil; mud; clay
HSK 7-9
territory
HSK 7-9
waste soil (excavation waste, contaminated soil etc) / (post-apocalyptic) wasteland
(idiom) to expand one's territory; to conquer new lands; (fig.) to expand one's business into new markets
native country; one's homeland
territory
reinforced concrete
ashen-faced (idiom)
raw opium
red brick clay
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *土* | 土* | *土
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
lit. to squander money like dirt (idiom) / fig. to spend money like water / extravagant
the East / China
(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)
moist, newly-tilled soil
happy place; paradise; haven
red soil / laterite
dust
sandy soil
alkaline soil
ferrosol (soil taxonomy)
to heap earth (to close a tomb) / a mound (covering a tomb)
loess (yellow sandy soil typical of north China)
(agriculture) loam / (literary) land; territory
topsoil / surface dust
permafrost
farmland
cambisol (soil taxonomy)
to bury / buried / interred
kaolin (clay) / china clay
rammed earth
dirty soil / dung and dirt / (fig.) worthless thing
to plow (loosen the soil)
water and soil / surface water / natural environment (extended meaning) / climate
fertile land
dust / (soil taxonomy) spodosol
humus (topsoil of decayed vegetation)
country bumpkin / redneck (derog)
to look upon as dirt / considered worthless
homeland / hot piece of real estate
cement (loanword) (old)
alkaline soil
bentonite (mineralogy)
aridisol (soil taxonomy)
anthrosol (soil taxonomy)
Rutog county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Ru thog rdzong
gleysol (soil taxonomy)
(agr.) immature soil / virgin soil
heaven and earth (idiom)
permafrost
halosol (soil taxonomy)
to guard one's territory / to protect the country
argosol (soil taxonomy)
topsoil
silt; silty soil
vertisol (soil taxonomy)
traditional Chinese building material made by mixing three components (typically lime, clay, and sand)
bauxite / aluminum ore
dirty soil / muck / trash
to break ground (prior to building sth) / to start building
Earth Deity (often paired with 皇天, August Heaven)
clay
(of seeds etc) to fall to the ground / (of the sun or moon) to set
andosol (soil taxonomy)
ferralsol (soil taxonomy)
to earth up
old-fashioned; unstylish
potter's clay / kaolin
(geology) silt
subsoil
freshly dug up earth
isohumisol (soil taxonomy)
histosol (soil taxonomy)
scorched earth
to break ground / to start digging / to plough / to break through the ground (of seedling) / fig. the start of a building project
fire clay
primosol (soil taxonomy)
ashen-faced (idiom)


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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