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


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