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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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Etymology [edit]

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

Han character [edit]

(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

Derived characters [edit]

References [edit]

  • 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

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(jyutping tou2, Yale tou2)


Hakka [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(POJ thú, Guangdong t'u3 [Meixian], t'u3, t'u2 [Hailu], Hagfa Pinyim tu3)

References [edit]


Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]

Noun [edit]

(hiragana つち, romaji tsuchi)

  1. earth; soil; mud
  2. the ground

Phrases [edit]


Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]


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

Noun [edit]

  1. earth
  2. (As an abbreviation) Saturday

Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

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

Compounds [edit]


Middle Chinese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(*tǒ )


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(thổ)