土

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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.

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Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

[edit] Han character

土 (radical 32 土+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 土 (G), four-corner 40100, composition ⿱十一)

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

[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

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[edit] Hanzi

土 (jyutping tou2, Yale tou2)

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土 (grade 1 kanji)

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[edit] Noun

土 (hiragana つち, romaji tsuchi)

  1. earth; soil; mud
  2. the ground

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[edit] Hanja

土
Eumhun:

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

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[edit] Hanzi

土 (pinyin tǔ (tu3), Wade-Giles t'u3)

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土 (*tǒ )

[edit] Vietnamese

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土 (thổ)

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