土 tǔ
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tǔ
noun
earth; soil; dirt
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Nature
Notes: In the sense of 土壤 or a mixture of sand and soil; measure words: 层 layer or 块 piece (Kroll 2015 '土' 1; Guoyu '土' n 1; NCCED '土' 1; Sun 2006, loc. 1377; Unihan '土') -
tǔ
noun
Kangxi radical 32
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: Earth radical (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '土' n 5) -
tǔ
adjective
local; indigenous; native
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 土产 'local product' (Guoyu '土' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '土' 2a; NCCED '土' 4) -
tǔ
noun
land; territory
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: This sense of the word is synonymous with 土地 of 地域 (Kroll 2015 '土' 1b; Guoyu '土' n 2; NCCED '土' 1). -
tǔ
noun
earth element
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: One of the 五行 'five elements' of traditional Chinese thought (Guoyu '土' n 4; Kroll 2015 '土' 4; Sun 2006, loc. 1377) -
tǔ
noun
ground
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: This sense of the word is synonymous with 地 (Kroll 2015 '土' 1a). -
tǔ
noun
homeland
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 乡里 (Kroll 2015 '土' 2; Guoyu '土' n 3; NCCED '土' 3) -
tǔ
noun
god of the soil
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '土' 3) -
tǔ
noun
a category of musical instrument
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: One of the eight categories of musical instruments (Kroll 2015 '土' 5) -
tǔ
adjective
unrefined; rustic; crude
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (NCCED '土' 5) -
tǔ
proper noun
Tujia people
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Asia , Concept: Ethnic Group 民族
Notes: An abbreviation for 土家族 (NCCED '土' tǔ 1) -
tǔ
proper noun
Tu People; Monguor
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Asia , Concept: Ethnic Group 民族
Notes: An abbreviation for 土族 (NCCED '土' tǔ 2)
Contained in
- 新土 freshly dug up earth
- 尘土(塵土) dust ; the mundane world
- 土曜日 Saturday
- 积土成山(積土成山) piling up dirt eventually creates a mountain; success is the cumulation of lots of small actions
- 土货(土貨) local produce
- 土壤盐化(土壤鹽化) soil salinization
- 混凝土(混凝土) concrete
- 土猪(土豬) aardvark
- 土地 territory ; soil; earth ; earth spirit; local spirit ; land
- 土腔 regional accent
- 启土(啟土) to develop land ; to divide territory [amongst the feudal lords] ; to dig a tomb
- 土尔其斯坦(土爾其斯坦) Turkestan
- 土丘 mound; hillock; barrow
- 客土 a place other than where one was born
- 本土派 local faction; pro-localization faction (in Taiwanese politics)
- 土方子 folk remedy
- 挖土机(挖土機) an excavator
- 东土(東土) the East; China
- 土气(土氣) rustic; uncouth; unsophisticated
- 土木工程 Civil Engineering
- 土生土长(土生土長) locally born and bred; indigenous; home-grown
- 土耳其旋转烤肉(土耳其旋轉烤肉) Turkish döner kebab
- 水土 water and soil
- 土路 dirt road
- 有机土(有機土) Histosols
- 阿土 country bumpkin; redneck (derog)
- 土豚 aardvark
- 土楼(土樓) traditional Hakka communal residence
- 土器 earthenware
- 泥土 earth; soil; clay
- 土木 civil engineering
- 皇天后土 Emperor of Heaven and Lord of Earth
- 土著人 indigenous person; aboriginal
- 土狗 native dog ; mole cricket
- 中土 China ; the Central Plains of China ; level ground
- 不服水土 (of a stranger) not accustomed to the climate of a new place; not acclimatized
- 土地改革 land reform
- 风土(風土) natural conditions and social customs of a place; local conditions
- 酸辣土豆丝(酸辣土豆絲) hot and sour shredded potato
- 土洋结合(土洋結合) combining native and foreign methods; sophisticated and many-sided
- 骑土(騎土) knight; chevallier; chivalrous
- 土茴香 dill seed
Also contained in
土木之变 、 英国属土 、 赤土 、 土默特左旗 、 土豆网 、 土耳其 、 土城市 、 日土县 、 长阳土家族自治县
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 《土部》 Tǔ Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 164
- 卷三百十四 列傳第二百〇二 雲南土司二 Volume 314 Biographies 202: Yunnan Tribal Headmen 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 98
- 卷三百十一 列傳第一百九十九 四川土司一 Volume 311 Biographies 199: Sichuan Tribal Headmen 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 91
- 卷三百十八 列傳第二百〇六 廣西土司二 Volume 318 Biographies 206: Guangxi Tribal Headmen 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 88
- 卷三百十三 列傳第二百〇一 雲南土司一 Volume 313 Biographies 201: Yunnan Tribal Headmen 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 88
- 卷三百十七 列傳第二百〇五 廣西土司一 Volume 317 Biographies 205: Guangxi Tribal Headmen 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 80
- 卷四十三上 志第三十三上 地理七上 Volume 43a Treatises 37: Gepgraphy 7a New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 68
- 卷四十一 志第三十一 地理五 Volume 41 Treatises 35: Gepgraphy 5 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 64
- 卷三百十九 列傳第二百〇七 廣西土司三 Volume 319 Biographies 207: Guangxi Tribal Headmen 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 64
- 卷三百十五 列傳第二百〇三 雲南土司三 Volume 315 Biographies 203: Yunnan Tribal Headmen 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 56
Collocations
- 践土 (踐土) 莒子盟于踐土 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 14
- 西土 (西土) 西土有眾 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 泰誓中 Zhou Shu - Great Declaration II — count: 11
- 土田 (土田) 徹申伯土田 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧崧高 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Song Gao — count: 10
- 土功 (土功) 惟荒度土功 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 益稷 Yu Shu - Yi and Ji — count: 5
- 南土 (南土) 莫如南土 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧崧高 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Song Gao — count: 3
- 后土 (後土) 告于皇天後土 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 武成 Zhou Shu - Successful Completion of the War — count: 3
- 伯土 (伯土) 徹申伯土田 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧崧高 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Song Gao — count: 2
- 率土 (率土) 率土之濱 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧谷風之什‧北山 Minor odes of the kingdom - Gu Feng Zhi Shen - Bei Shan — count: 2
- 土齐 (土齊) 是則土齊也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 2
- 土宇 (土宇) 爾土宇昄章 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧生民之什‧卷阿 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Sheng Min - Juan A — count: 2