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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
- —土質力学soil mechanics
- —温泉余土solfataric clay
- —中国本土mainland China; China proper
- —黒ぼく土crumbly black topsoil (esp. from weathered volcanic ash); loam soil
- —本土方言mainland dialects (of Japanese, as opposed to the Ryukyu languages)
- —日本本土Japan proper (sometimes excluding the Ryukyu islands and other remote islands); mainland Japan
- —土葬墓地graveyard; burial ground; cemetery
- —土壌浸食soil erosion
- —本土決戦decisive mainland battle (land battle envisioned late in World War II)
- —苦土石灰dolomite lime
- —土木技師civil engineer
- —ＩＴ土方lowly IT worker; overworked and underpaid IT professional
- —水礬土鉱bauxite
- —郷土資料local collection (of a library); local materials; local artefacts
- —土台作りgroundwork; laying the foundation
- —土木作業construction work
- —焦土作戦scorched-earth strategy (policy, tactics)
- —飛び領土enclave; exclave
- —土曜保育Saturday childcare (e.g. at a nursery school)
- —苦土明礬pickeringite