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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
soil
HSK 7-9
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
produced locally / local product (with distinctive native features)
domestic and foreign
one's body as wood and earth / undecorated / unvarnished (truth)
Saturn (planet)
moon of Saturn
Turkey
Tucheng, a district of New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
land resources
local accent
mud brick / adobe / unfired earthenware
building / construction / civil engineering
Turkmen / (Tw, HK) Turkmenistan
civil engineering
local tyrant / local strong man / (slang) nouveau riche
free-range chicken
Tuku town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
Tujia ethnic group of Hunan
(Tw) debris flow / mudslide
mound / hillock / barrow
Tudi Gong, the local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion)
land reform (abbr. for 土地改革)
local god / genius loci
aardwolf (Proteles cristatus), a small insectivorous relative of the hyena
Turkish (language)
cubic meter of earth (unit of measurement) / excavated soil / earthwork (abbr. for 土方工程) / (TCM) folk remedy
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *土* | 土* | *土
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
Turkmenistan
country bumpkin / boor / unsophisticated country person (humble, applied to oneself) / burial mound
local specialty
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated
native dog / mole cricket (colloquial word for agricultural pest Gryllotalpa 螻蛄|蝼蛄)
Toulon (city in France)
(zoology) marmot (in the US, esp. groundhog or woodchuck)
Tuku town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
aboriginal
mashed potato
pedology (soil study)
local wealthy landlord / country money-bags / rich provincial
Titan (moon of Saturn), aka Saturn VI
land reform
unsophisticated / rustic / uncouth
mound
vernacular / slang / dialect / patois
local tyrant
hillbilly / yokel / redneck / bumpkin
ground beetle / (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海歸|海归, has never studied overseas / (dialect) country bumpkin
local bosses, shady gentry (idiom); dominant local mafia
Tumed right banner, Mongolian Tümed baruun khoshuu, in Baotou 包頭|包头, Inner Mongolia
Tumed left banner, Mongolian Tümed züün khoshuu, in Hohhot 呼和浩特, Inner Mongolia
dialect / patois
mound / hillock
temperature of the soil
homespun cloth
local produce
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated
layer of soil / ground level
local policy / regional regulations
aardvark
to collapse / to fall apart
Tu or White Mongol ethnic group of Qinghai
traditional method
earth and wood framework (idiom); plain and undecorated body
civil engineering / same as 土木工程
lit. earthen steps and a thatched hut / frugal living conditions (idiom)
earthenware
sliced bread (loanword from "toast") / government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
earthen levee
native / aborigine / clay figure
burial (in earth)
heated brick common bed
clay ox / mound of earth on a dike (ready for emergency repairs)
clay ox, wooden horse (idiom); shape without substance / worthless object
combining native and foreign methods (idiom); sophisticated and many-sided
Tumen or Bumin Khan (-553), founder of Göktürk khanate
sun-dried mudbrick; adobe brick
earthen kiln / loess cave
cheesy pick-up lines
Saturday (used in ancient Chinese astronomy)
(mineralogy) (loanword) turquoise
julienned potato
(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
(dialect) clod of earth
a Turk / Turkish person
dirt road
geotechnical engineering
Turkish delight / Lokum
embankment between fields
(coll.) rustic; uncouth
traditional Hakka communal residence in Fujian, typically a large multistory circular structure built around a central shrine
native state (term used by British Colonial power to refer to independent states of India or Africa)
old-fashioned / extremely kitsch
Tucson (city in Arizona)

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