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land / soil / territory / CL: , 塊|块
HSK 4
potato (CL:個|个) / (Tw) peanut (CL:顆|颗)
HSK 5
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
land reform
produced locally / local product (with distinctive native features)
local god / genius loci
soil
HSK 7-9
Tucson (city in Arizona)
civil engineering
land resources
indigenous person / aboriginal
Tudi Gong, the local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion)
burial (in earth)
free-range chicken
(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
vernacular / slang / dialect / patois
combining native and foreign methods (idiom); sophisticated and many-sided
Turkey
native dog / mole cricket (colloquial word for agricultural pest Gryllotalpa 螻蛄|蝼蛄)
land reform (abbr. for 土地改革)
(Tw) debris flow / mudslide
local bosses, shady gentry (idiom); dominant local mafia
bandit
HSK 7-9
mound
local tyrant / local strong man / (slang) nouveau riche
dirt road
domestic and foreign
building / construction / civil engineering
(zoology) marmot (in the US, esp. groundhog or woodchuck)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *土* | 土* | *土
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
aboriginal
heated brick common bed
aardvark
mashed potato
pedology (soil study)
local tyrant
sliced bread (loanword from "toast") / government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
cheesy pick-up lines
earthen kiln / loess cave
to collapse / to fall apart
(TCM) folk remedy
local wealthy landlord / country money-bags / rich provincial
clay ox, wooden horse (idiom); shape without substance / worthless object
excavated soil and rock / construction spoil
land auction; to sell land at auction (abbr. for 土地拍賣|土地拍卖)
(Tw) Spanish mackerel
homemade / earthen
civil engineering / same as 土木工程
Titan (moon of Saturn), aka Saturn VI
Tudou, a Chinese video-sharing website
ground beetle / (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海歸|海归, has never studied overseas / (dialect) country bumpkin
layer of soil / ground level
mound / hillock / barrow
native / aborigine / clay figure
sun-dried mudbrick; adobe brick
Turkmenistan
native state (term used by British Colonial power to refer to independent states of India or Africa)
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated
Australia (slang term reflecting a perception of Australia as something of a backwater)
julienned potato
mud brick / adobe / unfired earthenware
traditional method
Tujia ethnic group of Hunan
old-fashioned / extremely kitsch
earthwork
Tuku town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
Turkmen / (Tw, HK) Turkmenistan
(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
unsophisticated / rustic / uncouth
Tumed left banner, Mongolian Tümed züün khoshuu, in Hohhot 呼和浩特, Inner Mongolia
local policy / regional regulations
local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion) (same as 土地公)
Saturday (used in ancient Chinese astronomy)
temple dedicated to the local tutelary god 土地神 and the god of cereals
earthenware
earthen levee
earth dam / dam of earth and rocks (as opposed to waterproof dam of clay or concrete)
combining native and foreign methods
earth God
moon of Saturn
Tu or White Mongol ethnic group of Qinghai
(of a taste or smell) earthy
lit. earthen steps and a small cottage / frugal living conditions (idiom)
embankment between fields
cubic meter of earth (unit of measurement) / excavated soil / earthwork (abbr. for 土方工程) / (TCM) folk remedy
Saturn (planet)
traditional Hakka communal residence in Fujian, typically a large multistory circular structure built around a central shrine
a Turk / Turkish person
Enceladus (moon of Saturn), aka Saturn II
Toulon (city in France)
homespun cloth
earth and wood framework (idiom); plain and undecorated body
hillbilly / yokel / redneck / bumpkin
Turkish (language)
Tucheng, a district of New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
local specialty
(dialect) clod of earth
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated

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