土

土

🔊 tǔ = tu + Ø3

Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu

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土

🔊 tǔ = tu + Ø3

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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How to pronounce 土

MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.

tǔ

= tu initial

Tu is for Tommy Turtle.

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+ Ø3 final

In the space station’s living room.

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土 character breakdown

Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.

• 土
  • 十
    • 一
    • 丨
  • 一

Component Translations

十

🔊 shí = sh + Ø2

ten / 10

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一

🔊 yī = y + Ø1

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

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吐

🔊 tù = tu + Ø4

to vomit / to throw up

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坐

🔊 zuò = zu + o4

to sit / to take a seat / to take (a bus, airplane etc) / to bear fruit / variant of 座[zuo4]

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基

🔊 jī = ji + Ø1

(bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)

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