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
- —土味local flavouring
- —土圧earth pressure
- —残土earth dug out of a construction site
- —土壺terrible situation; awful state of affairs; (being) in the shit; night-soil reservoir dug in a field; night-soil pot; earthenware vessel; earthen urn
- —土倉money broker (Muromachi period)
- —土堤embankment made of earth; bank; levee
- —庭土garden soil; soil used in a garden
- —仏土realm of a Buddha; Pure Land; paradise; Buddhist country; land where Buddha has appeared to spread his teachings
- —四土four realms (in Tendai Buddhism or Yogacara)
- —土湿soil moisture
- —土代draft (of a document)
- —土楼tulou (traditional rural dwelling in Fujian, China)
- —礫土gravelly soil
- —土建civil engineering and construction; public works and construction
- —紅土laterite
- —封土tumulus; barrow; grave mound
- —用土soil for horticulture; soil for seed planting
- —焼土burning earth, e.g. for sterilization and converting compost
- —重土barium oxide; heavy clay
- —切土earth cut; cutting