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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
- —土足Popularshod feet; wearing shoes; muddy feet; dirty feet
- —土塀Popularmud wall; earthen wall; plaster wall
- —粘土Popularclay
- —土砂Popularsediment; earth and sand
- —本土Popularmainland; the country proper; native country; country where one was born; pure land; Buddha realm
- —土日Popularweekend; Saturday and Sunday
- —土建屋Populargeneral (civil engineering and construction) contractor
- —土壇場Popularlast moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
- —国土庁Popular(Japanese) National Land Agency
- —土俵際Popularedge of the ring; verge; brink; critical moment; last moment
- —土砂降りPopulardownpour; pouring rain; heavy rain; pelting rain; cloudburst
- —浄土真宗PopularJōdo Shinshū (offshoot of the Jōdo sect); True Pure Land School
- —土Saturday; earth; dirt; soil; land; lands; ground; earth (third of the five elements)
- —王土royal or imperial domain
- —黄土loess; yellow ochre; yellow ocher; Hades; hell; underworld; world of the dead
- —灰土ashes and earth; poor volcanic soil
- —客土introducing foreign topsoil to one's land (to improve soil quality); foreign topsoil brought to mix with the soil present; (faraway) destination; foreign land; distant land
- —旧土former property or territory
- —苦土magnesia; magnesium oxide
- —黒土black terracotta; black soil