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
- —上層土topsoil
- —土下座kneeling down on the ground; prostrate oneself
- —粘土質clay-like; clayey; argillaceous
- —風土病endemic disease; local disease
- —平土間seats immediately in front of the stage (e.g. in kabuki); pit; orchestra; parquet
- —土着民indigenous people; native people; natives; aborigines
- —土用波high waves which rise during the dog days of summer
- —土石流avalanche of earth and rocks; debris flow; mudslide; landslide
- —土百姓farmer; peasant
- —土性骨one's innate character; spirit; backbone
- —土建業the (civil engineering and) construction industry
- —土俗学ethnology; folkloristics
- —腐葉土humus; leaf mold; leaf mould; mulch
- —腐植土humus (soil); mold
- —浄土宗Pure Land sect (of Buddhism); Jodo (sect)
- —浄土教Pure Land teachings
- —紙粘土paper clay
- —盛り土embankment (for road, railway, etc.); raising the ground level; fill
- —培養土potting soil; planting mix; compost
- —郷土史local history