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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
one's native country / native / local / metropolitan territory
HSK 6
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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *土* | 土* | *土
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
to earth up
native soil / one's native land / one's hometown / local (to an area)
loess (yellow sandy soil typical of north China)
to break ground (prior to building sth) / to start building
clay
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
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
to break ground / to start digging / to plough / to break through the ground (of seedling) / fig. the start of a building project
territory
(Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit)
surface soil / topsoil
to guard one's territory / to protect the country
rammed earth
(agr.) immature soil / virgin soil
(agriculture) loam / (literary) land; territory
scorched earth
old-fashioned; unstylish
(idiom) to expand one's territory; to conquer new lands; (fig.) to expand one's business into new markets
dirty soil / dung and dirt / (fig.) worthless thing
dust / (soil taxonomy) spodosol
potter's clay / kaolin
lit. to squander money like dirt (idiom) / fig. to spend money like water / extravagant
Rutog county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Ru thog rdzong
raw opium
topsoil / surface dust
heaven and earth (idiom)
traditional Chinese building material made by mixing three components (typically lime, clay, and sand)
dirty soil / muck / trash
(of a stranger) not accustomed to the climate of a new place / not acclimatized
alkaline soil
cement (loanword) (old)
waste soil (excavation waste, contaminated soil etc) / (post-apocalyptic) wasteland
ferrosol (soil taxonomy)
moist, newly-tilled soil
the East / China
(neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)
subsoil
farmland
to heap earth (to close a tomb) / a mound (covering a tomb)
(geology) silt
humus (topsoil of decayed vegetation)
ashen-faced (idiom)
country bumpkin / redneck (derog)
ferralsol (soil taxonomy)
bauxite / aluminum ore
aridisol (soil taxonomy)
histosol (soil taxonomy)
permafrost
andosol (soil taxonomy)
red brick clay
vertisol (soil taxonomy)
cambisol (soil taxonomy)
ashen-faced (idiom)
anthrosol (soil taxonomy)
isohumisol (soil taxonomy)
freshly dug up earth
primosol (soil taxonomy)
permafrost
argosol (soil taxonomy)
gleysol (soil taxonomy)
Putog, former county 1983-1999 in Zogang county 左貢縣|左贡县, Chamdo prefecture, Tibet
silt; silty soil
fireproof stone / flame-resistant material
bentonite (mineralogy)
(of seeds etc) to fall to the ground / (of the sun or moon) to set
to look upon as dirt / considered worthless
reinforced concrete
alkaline soil
halosol (soil taxonomy)


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