Kanji1 / 3
土 kanji
soil, earth, ground, Turkey
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
ドト
Kun readings
つち
Words with 土
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —風成土aeolian soil
- —風積土aeolian soil
- —土手鍋hot pot meal featuring oysters and a miso broth, cooked at the table
- —剥土比stripping ratio
- —土埋木fallen trees (esp. cryptomeria on Yakushima)
- —土用丑day of the ox in midsummer (during the hottest season); dog days of summer
- —米本土continental United States; mainland United States
- —粘土盤claypan
- —土堰堤earthfill dam
- —採土器soil sampler
- —鉄礬土bauxite
- —土食症geophagia; geophagy
- —土運船hopper barge
- —塩粘土salt dough
- —土下寝lying down on the ground (in apology)
- —構造土patterned ground (caused by the freezing and thawing of soil)
- —泥灰土marl
- —国土法National Land Use Planning Act
- —藍鉄土blue iron earth
- —土用餅doyō mochi (mochi made during the dog days of summer)