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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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 / soil / territory / CL: , 塊|块
HSK 4
potato (CL:個|个) / (Tw) peanut (CL:顆|颗)
HSK 5
one's native country / native / local / metropolitan territory
HSK 6
soil
HSK 7-9
territory
HSK 7-9
concrete (building material)
HSK 7-9
to dig up / to appear in an excavation / unearthed / to come up out of the ground
HSK 7-9
country's territory / national land
HSK 7-9
earth; soil; mud; clay
HSK 7-9
bandit
HSK 7-9
locally born and bred / indigenous / home-grown
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *土* | 土* | *土
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
traditional Hakka communal residence in Fujian, typically a large multistory circular structure built around a central shrine
Turkey
local god / genius loci
civil engineering / same as 土木工程
to earth up
ground beetle / (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海歸|海归, has never studied overseas / (dialect) country bumpkin
Toulon (city in France)
native soil / one's native land / one's hometown / local (to an area)
loess (yellow sandy soil typical of north China)
aboriginal
local tyrant / local strong man / (slang) nouveau riche
building / construction / civil engineering
not acclimatized
layer of soil / ground level
to break ground (prior to building sth) / to start building
clay
excavated soil and rock / construction spoil
local conditions and customs (idiom)
fertile land
red soil / laterite
frozen earth / permafrost / tundra
Sino-Turkish
homeland / hot piece of real estate
dust
sandy soil
happy place; paradise; haven
native country; one's homeland
to bury / buried / interred
bulldozer
Tucheng city in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
to plow (loosen the soil)
water and soil / surface water / natural environment (extended meaning) / climate
rare earth (chemistry)
natural conditions and social customs of a place / local conditions
kaolin (clay) / china clay
cubic meter of earth (unit of measurement) / excavated soil / earthwork (abbr. for 土方工程) / (TCM) folk remedy
to break ground / to start digging / to plough / to break through the ground (of seedling) / fig. the start of a building project
territory
mound
Turkmen / (Tw, HK) Turkmenistan
(Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit)
sliced bread (loanword from "toast") / government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom) / fig. to regroup and come back even stronger / to make a comeback
surface soil / topsoil
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated
native / aborigine / clay figure
land reform (abbr. for 土地改革)
vernacular / slang / dialect / patois
Saturn (planet)
burial (in earth)
to guard one's territory / to protect the country
rammed earth
(agr.) immature soil / virgin soil
(agriculture) loam / (literary) land; territory
head and face filthy with grime (idiom) / covered in dirt / dejected and depressed
scorched earth
old-fashioned; unstylish
(idiom) to expand one's territory; to conquer new lands; (fig.) to expand one's business into new markets
earth dam / dam of earth and rocks (as opposed to waterproof dam of clay or concrete)
dirty soil / dung and dirt / (fig.) worthless thing
dust / (soil taxonomy) spodosol
Tu or White Mongol ethnic group of Qinghai
potter's clay / kaolin
buried and at rest (idiom); Resquiescat in pacem (RIP)
dialect / patois
to collapse / to fall apart
lit. to squander money like dirt (idiom) / fig. to spend money like water / extravagant
free-range chicken
Rutog county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Ru thog rdzong
produced locally / local product (with distinctive native features)
homespun cloth
unsophisticated / rustic / uncouth
local produce
heated brick common bed
traditional method
to carry out large scale construction
mud brick / adobe / unfired earthenware
mound / hillock / barrow
raw opium
topsoil / surface dust
aardwolf (Proteles cristatus), a small insectivorous relative of the hyena
earthen levee
bulldozer; wheel loader
heaven and earth (idiom)
ashen-faced (idiom)
Khartoum, capital of Sudan
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated

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