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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
territory
HSK 7-9
earth; soil; mud; clay
HSK 7-9
country's territory / national land
HSK 7-9
to dig up / to appear in an excavation / unearthed / to come up out of the ground
HSK 7-9
soil
HSK 7-9
concrete (building material)
HSK 7-9
bandit
HSK 7-9
Turkmen / (Tw, HK) Turkmenistan
Saturn (planet)
Turkey
Tucheng city in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
clay
lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom) / fig. to regroup and come back even stronger / to make a comeback
Tucheng city in New Taipei City 新北市, Taiwan
building / construction / civil engineering
kaolin (clay) / china clay
sliced bread (loanword from "toast") / government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
civil engineering
free-range chicken
Tuku town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
local tyrant / local strong man / (slang) nouveau riche
to break ground (prior to building sth) / to start building
Tujia ethnic group of Hunan
(Tw) debris flow / mudslide
mound / hillock / barrow
Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County in Chongqing 重慶|重庆
Tudi Gong, the local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion)
land reform (abbr. for 土地改革)
local god / genius loci
(Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit)
aardwolf (Proteles cristatus), a small insectivorous relative of the hyena
reinforced concrete
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *土* | 土* | *土
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
Sino-Turkish
Turkish (language)
cubic meter of earth (unit of measurement) / excavated soil / earthwork (abbr. for 土方工程) / (TCM) folk remedy
soil conservation
native soil / one's native land / one's hometown / local (to an area)
red soil / laterite
excavator / backhoe
produced locally / local product (with distinctive native features)
happy place; paradise; haven
local conditions and customs (idiom)
head and face filthy with grime (idiom) / covered in dirt / dejected and depressed
Turkmenistan
dust
to plow (loosen the soil)
country bumpkin / boor / unsophisticated country person (humble, applied to oneself) / burial mound
local specialty
rustic / uncouth / unsophisticated
the East / China
to localize / localization
(neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)
combining native and foreign methods (idiom); sophisticated and many-sided
native dog / mole cricket (colloquial word for agricultural pest Gryllotalpa 螻蛄|蝼蛄)
Toulon (city in France)
(zoology) marmot (in the US, esp. groundhog or woodchuck)
Tuku town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县, Taiwan
to carry out large scale construction
lit. to squander money like dirt (idiom) / fig. to spend money like water / extravagant
loess (yellow sandy soil typical of north China)
Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County in southeastern Chongqing 重慶|重庆
Loess Plateau of northwest China
aboriginal
mashed potato
pedology (soil study)
territorial integrity
local wealthy landlord / country money-bags / rich provincial
Titan (moon of Saturn), aka Saturn VI
Datong Hui and Tu autonomous county in Xining 西寧|西宁, Qinghai
Pure Land Buddhism
buried and at rest (idiom); Resquiescat in pacem (RIP)
land reform
unsophisticated / rustic / uncouth
mound
vernacular / slang / dialect / patois
rare earth element (chemistry)
alkaline earth (i.e. beryllium Be 鈹|铍, magnesium Mg 鎂|镁, calcium Ca 鈣|钙, strontium Sr 鍶|锶, barium Ba 鋇|钡 and radium Ra 鐳|镭)
bulldozer; wheel loader
local tyrant
humus (topsoil of decayed vegetation)
bauxite
dialect / patois
ashen-faced (idiom)
hillbilly / yokel / redneck / bumpkin
Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County in Chongqing 重慶|重庆
waste soil (excavation waste, contaminated soil etc) / (post-apocalyptic) wasteland
subsoil
ground beetle / (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海歸|海归, has never studied overseas / (dialect) country bumpkin
permafrost / tundra / layer of frozen soil
to break ground / to start digging / to plough / to break through the ground (of seedling) / fig. the start of a building project
Changyang Tujia Autonomous County in Hubei
farmland
Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County in Tongren 銅仁市|铜仁市, Guizhou
Yanhe Tujia Autonomous County in Tongren 銅仁市|铜仁市, Guizhou
Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County in Chongqing 重慶|重庆

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