苦土

Chinese

		bitter; intensely; miserable bitter; intensely; miserable; painful	earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian
trad. (苦土)		苦	土
simp. #(苦土)		苦	土

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kǔtǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨˇ ㄊㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu² tou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kǔtǔ [Phonetic: kútǔ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨˇ ㄊㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kǔtǔ
    • Wade–Giles: kʻu³-tʻu³
    • Yale: kǔ-tǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuutuu
    • Palladius: куту (kutu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu² tou²
    • Yale: fú tóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu² tou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu² tou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː³⁵ tʰou̯³⁵/

Noun

苦土

1. (mineralogy) magnesia

Japanese

Kanji in this term
苦	土
く Grade: 3	ど Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) く​ど [kúꜜdò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [kɯ̟ᵝdo̞]

Noun

苦(く)土(ど) • (kudo) 

1. magnesia, magnesium oxide

Derived terms

• 苦土石灰(くどせっかい) (kudosekkai): magnesia lime
• 苦土素(くどそ) (kudoso): magnesium
• 菱苦土石(りょうくどせき) (ryōkudoseki): magnesite