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土
JLPT N5 SL1 3 strokes Frequency: #307

Meanings

Soil / Earth

Radicals

土

Decomposition

⿱十一

Etymology

Pictographic: A lump of clay on a potter's wheel

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 3

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top
2 vertical top-right-to-bottom-left
3 horizontal bottom-to-top
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ド do
γƒˆ to
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
぀け tsuchi

Words Using This Kanji

473 words total
Other (20 words)
ι ˜εœŸε›žεΎ©δΈ»ηΎ©θ€… γ‚Šγ‚‡γ†γ©γ‹γ„γ΅γγ—γ‚…γŽγ—γ‚ƒ

irredentist

ι ˜εœŸε›žεΎ©δΈ»ηΎ© γ‚Šγ‚‡γ†γ©γ‹γ„γ΅γγ—γ‚…γŽ

irredentism

土袳厳禁 どそくげんきん

shoes strictly prohibited

土ζ—₯月 どにけげ぀

Saturday, Sunday and Monday

土堀 どでい

embankment made of earth

εœŸε–ε ΄ γ©γ¨γ‚Šγ°

borrowing pit (in flood prevention)

εœŸθ”΅ι€ γ‚Š γ©γžγ†γ₯γγ‚Š

house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud

土船 ぀けぢね

boat for transporting earth

庭土 にわど

garden soil

η²˜εœŸε›£ε­ ねんどだんご

seed ball ("natural farming" technique)

土にγͺγ‚‹ ぀けにγͺγ‚‹

to die

土とγͺγ‚‹ ぀けとγͺγ‚‹

to die

εΈΈε―‚ε…‰εœŸ γ˜γ‚‡γ†γ˜γ‚ƒγ£γ“γ†γ©

land of eternally tranquil light (highest realm in Tendai Buddhism)

仏土 ぢ぀ど

realm of a Buddha

ε››εœŸ しど

four realms (in Tendai Buddhism or Yogacara)

ζ΅„εœŸδΈ‰ιƒ¨η΅Œ γ˜γ‚‡γ†γ©γ•γ‚“γΆγγ‚‡γ†

three major sutras of Pure Land Buddhism

εœŸεΎ‘ι–€η₯žι“ ぀けみかどしんとう

Tsuchimikado Shinto (synthesis of Shinto and Onmyōdō formulated by Yasutomi Tsuchimikado in the mid-Edo period)

ε›½εœŸι–‹η™ΊεΉΉη·šθ‡ͺε‹•θ»Šι“ γ“γγ©γ‹γ„γ―γ€γ‹γ‚“γ›γ‚“γ˜γ©γ†γ—γ‚ƒγ©γ†

national development arterial expressway

ζ–­ε±€η²˜εœŸ だんそうねんど

fault gouge

ε›½εœŸι–‹η™Ί こくどかいは぀

national land development (e.g. building infrastructure, roads, etc.)