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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
land / soil / territory / CL: , 塊|块
HSK 4
potato (CL:個|个) / (Tw) peanut (CL:顆|颗)
HSK 5
bandit
HSK 7-9
(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
soil
HSK 7-9
Turkey
Toulon (city in France)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *土* | 土* | *土
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
Tucson (city in Arizona)
building / construction / civil engineering
cubic meter of earth (unit of measurement) / excavated soil / earthwork (abbr. for 土方工程) / (TCM) folk remedy
earth God
excavated soil and rock / construction spoil
vernacular / slang / dialect / patois
heated brick common bed
native / aborigine / clay figure
mound
Turkmen / (Tw, HK) Turkmenistan
sliced bread (loanword from "toast") / government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated
Tucheng, a district of New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
land reform (abbr. for 土地改革)
Saturn (planet)
burial (in earth)
traditional Hakka communal residence in Fujian, typically a large multistory circular structure built around a central shrine
earth dam / dam of earth and rocks (as opposed to waterproof dam of clay or concrete)
Tu or White Mongol ethnic group of Qinghai
dialect / patois
free-range chicken
produced locally / local product (with distinctive native features)
homespun cloth
unsophisticated / rustic / uncouth
local produce
traditional method
local tyrant / local strong man / (slang) nouveau riche
mound / hillock / barrow
civil engineering / same as 土木工程
aardwolf (Proteles cristatus), a small insectivorous relative of the hyena
earthen levee
mound / hillock
clay ox / mound of earth on a dike (ready for emergency repairs)
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated
to collapse / to fall apart
Turkish (language)
local bosses, shady gentry (idiom); dominant local mafia
local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion) (same as 土地公)
aboriginal
combining native and foreign methods
civil engineering
aardvark
Tudi Gong, the local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion)
local god / genius loci
pedology (soil study)
earthenware
local tyrant
country bumpkin / boor / unsophisticated country person (humble, applied to oneself) / burial mound
lit. earthen steps and a thatched hut / frugal living conditions (idiom)
old-fashioned / extremely kitsch
mashed potato
local specialty
ground beetle / (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海歸|海归, has never studied overseas / (dialect) country bumpkin
a Turk / Turkish person
indigenous person / aboriginal
Australia (slang term reflecting a perception of Australia as something of a backwater)
Turkish delight / Lokum
Tumed left banner, Mongolian Tümed züün khoshuu, in Hohhot 呼和浩特, Inner Mongolia
earthwork
(Tw) debris flow / mudslide
hillbilly / yokel / redneck / bumpkin
Saturday (used in ancient Chinese astronomy)
(mineralogy) (loanword) turquoise
Turkmen (person)
local wealthy landlord / country money-bags / rich provincial
Tuku town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
land auction; to sell land at auction (abbr. for 土地拍賣|土地拍卖)
Titan (moon of Saturn), aka Saturn VI
native state (term used by British Colonial power to refer to independent states of India or Africa)
(coll.) commie (derog., used by the KMT) / CCP, the party of the people (used by CCP supporters) / pro-Beijing camp (HK) / (abbr.) Communist Party of Turkey / (abbr.) Communist Party of Turkmenistan
Tujia ethnic group of Hunan
native dog / mole cricket (colloquial word for agricultural pest Gryllotalpa 螻蛄|蝼蛄)
see 香附
cheesy pick-up lines
land use plan (official P.R.C. government term)
(dialect) clod of earth
Francisella tularensis
earth and wood framework (idiom); plain and undecorated body
temperature of the soil
Turkish döner kebab
moon of Saturn
Tudou, a Chinese video-sharing website
aardvark
Tumed right banner, Mongolian Tümed baruun khoshuu, in Baotou 包頭|包头, Inner Mongolia
geotechnical engineering
land reform
land resources
erhua variant of 土坎
mud brick / adobe / unfired earthenware

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