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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
one's native country / native / local / metropolitan territory
HSK 6
earth; soil; mud; clay
HSK 7-9
country's territory / national land
HSK 7-9
to dig up / to appear in an excavation / unearthed / to come up out of the ground
HSK 7-9
concrete (building material)
HSK 7-9
territory
HSK 7-9
scorched earth
bauxite / aluminum ore
Putog, former county 1983-1999 in Zogang county 左貢縣|左贡县, Chamdo prefecture, Tibet
(agr.) immature soil / virgin soil
vertisol (soil taxonomy)
clay
permafrost
dirty soil / dung and dirt / (fig.) worthless thing
to break ground (prior to building sth) / to start building
(Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit)
reinforced concrete
Sino-Turkish
native soil / one's native land / one's hometown / local (to an area)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *土* | 土* | *土
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
ashen-faced (idiom)
happy place; paradise; haven
dust
to plow (loosen the soil)
lit. to squander money like dirt (idiom) / fig. to spend money like water / extravagant
loess (yellow sandy soil typical of north China)
ashen-faced (idiom)
waste soil (excavation waste, contaminated soil etc) / (post-apocalyptic) wasteland
subsoil
kaolin (clay) / china clay
to break ground / to start digging / to plough / to break through the ground (of seedling) / fig. the start of a building project
farmland
natural conditions and social customs of a place / local conditions
native country; one's homeland
alkaline soil
sandy soil
dirty soil / muck / trash
Rutog county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Ru thog rdzong
(agriculture) loam / (literary) land; territory
to bury / buried / interred
heaven and earth (idiom)
fertile land
topsoil
water and soil / surface water / natural environment (extended meaning) / climate
potter's clay / kaolin
raw opium
territory
(of a stranger) not accustomed to the climate of a new place / not acclimatized
frozen earth / permafrost / tundra
to earth up
dust / (soil taxonomy) spodosol
cement (loanword) (old)
to guard one's territory / to protect the country
traditional Chinese building material made by mixing three components (typically lime, clay, and sand)
(idiom) to expand one's territory; to conquer new lands; (fig.) to expand one's business into new markets
(neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)
to heap earth (to close a tomb) / a mound (covering a tomb)
old-fashioned; unstylish
moist, newly-tilled soil
country bumpkin / redneck (derog)
rare earth (chemistry)
ferralsol (soil taxonomy)
bentonite (mineralogy)
(geology) silt
silt; silty soil
fire clay
argosol (soil taxonomy)
(of seeds etc) to fall to the ground / (of the sun or moon) to set
aridisol (soil taxonomy)
anthrosol (soil taxonomy)
isohumisol (soil taxonomy)
rammed earth
ferrosol (soil taxonomy)
freshly dug up earth
primosol (soil taxonomy)
histosol (soil taxonomy)
the East / China
permafrost
topsoil / surface dust
gleysol (soil taxonomy)
andosol (soil taxonomy)
homeland / hot piece of real estate
red brick clay
red soil / laterite
humus (topsoil of decayed vegetation)
to look upon as dirt / considered worthless
cambisol (soil taxonomy)
alkaline soil
halosol (soil taxonomy)


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