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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
- —作土surface soil
- —帝土imperial domain
- —泥土mud
- —土葬burial; interment
- —土俗local customs
- —土着indigenousness; being native (to a region); settling (of people); native; indigenous; aboriginal
- —土鍋earthenware pot
- —土嚢sandbag
- —土用midsummer (late July through early August); dog days (of summer); final 18 days of each season on the traditional solar calendar
- —土塁earthen walls (of fortification); earthwork; embankment
- —凍土frozen soil
- —表土top soil
- —貧土poor soil; poor country
- —偏土rural areas
- —冥土Hades; the underworld; the other world; realm of the dead
- —穢土this impure world (as opposed to the pure land); feces; faeces
- —土偶earthen figure; clay figure; dogū; clay figurines from the late Jōmon period
- —土方construction worker; laborer (labourer); navvy
- —覆土covering seeds with soil
- —邦土realm; country