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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

Pictogram (象形): a lump of clay on a potter’s wheel.

土 土 土 土
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

[edit] Han character

(radical 32 +0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 土 (G), four-corner 40100, composition)

  1. soil, earth
  2. items made of earth
  3. One of the five basic elements
  4. peasant

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[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 223, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4867
  • Dae Jaweon: page 453, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 415, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+571F

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(jyutping tou2, Yale tou2)


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(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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[edit] Noun

(hiragana つち, romaji tsuchi)

  1. earth; soil; mud
  2. the ground

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Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): ,  (revised: to, du, McCune-Reischauer: t'o, tu, Yale: tho, twu)
  • Name (hangeul): , 뿌리 (revised: heulk, ppuri, McCune-Reischauer: hŭk, ppuri, Yale: hulk, ppuli)
  • Compounds

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin (tu3), Wade-Giles t'u3)

  1. 耶和华神对蛇说,你既作了这事,就必受咒诅,比一切的牲畜野兽更甚。你必用肚子行走,终身吃土。
    Yēhéhuá shén duì shé shuō , nǐ jì zuò le zhè shì , jiù bì shòu zhòuzǔ , bǐ yīqiè de shēngchù yĕshòu gèng shén . nǐ bì yòng dùzi xíng zǒu , zhōng shēn chī tǔ .
    And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

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[edit] Han character

(*tǒ )


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(thổ)

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