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Translation

tǔ = tu + Ø3: earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

Mnemonic

Tommy Turtle (tu) wants to fix a cross (十) on a flute (一) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He uses dust and clay (土) to hold them together.

All translations for 土

Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
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earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
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土 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
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Characters with 土 as component

king or monarch / best or strongest of its type / grand / great
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to rule / to reign over
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li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
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lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]
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Buddhist temple / mosque / government office (old)
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flat / open-hearted / level / smooth
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used in 埋怨[man2 yuan4]
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to spit / to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc) / to say / to pour out (one's grievances)
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Words with 土

to bury / buried / interred
lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom) / fig. to regroup and come back even stronger / to make a comeback
to break ground (prior to building sth) / to start building
frozen earth / permafrost / tundra
Sino-Turkish
to dig up / to appear in an excavation / unearthed / to come up out of the ground
Khartoum, capital of Sudan
buried and at rest (idiom); Resquiescat in pacem (RIP)
mortar / concrete / cement
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
permafrost / tundra / layer of frozen soil
Yinjiang Tujia and Hmong autonomous county in Tongren prefecture 銅仁地區|铜仁地区[Tong2 ren2 di4 qu1], Guizhou
(neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)
(of a stranger) not accustomed to the climate of a new place / not acclimatized
aridisol (soil taxonomy)
dry-fried potato slices (Chinese dish)
Huzhu Tuzu Autonomous County in Haidong prefecture 海東地區|海东地区[Hai3 dong1 di4 qu1], Qinghai
anthrosol (soil taxonomy)

Sentences with 土

xiǎo
shén
shì
běn
yuán
tǔ
di
 
 
lái
zhè
r
cì
hòu
dà
shèng