土
soil; earth; ground; Turkey
3 strokes. Taught in grade 1. Newspaper frequency rank 307.
Readings
- ド (on reading): 土曜日 (どようび) Saturday; 土曜 (どよう) Saturday
- ト (on reading): 土地 (とち) plot of land; 土地利用 (とちりよう) land use
- つち (kun reading): 土 (つち) earth; 安土桃山時代 (あづちももやまじだい) Azuchi-Momoyama period (approx. 1558-1600)
- Read as a whole word: 土産 (みやげ) local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; 手土産 (てみやげ) present (brought by a visitor); 土産屋 (みやげや) souvenir shop
Components
- 土 radical earth
Kanji containing 土
- 社 company
- 地 ground
- 場 location
- 在 exist
- 増 increase
- 基 fundamentals
- 境 boundary
- 域 range
- 去 gone
- 型 mould
- 達 accomplished
- 赤 red
- 走 run
- 塁 bases
- 均 level
- 圧 pressure
- 壊 demolition
- 幸 happiness
- 城 castle
- 坂 slope
- 塚 hillock
- 寺 Buddhist temple
- 埼 cape
- 至 climax
- 堂 public chamber
- 壁 wall
- 堅 strict
- 埋 bury
- 塩 salt
- 堀 ditch
- 塾 cram school
- 墓 grave
- 壌 lot
- 塗 paint
- 陛 highness
- 培 cultivate
- 墜 crash
- 壇 podium
- 垣 hedge
- 墨 black ink
- 堤 dike
- 吐 spit
- 庄 level
- 塔 pagoda
- 垂 droop
- 塊 clod
- 墳 tomb
- 坪 two-mat area
- 坊 boy
- 圭 square jewel
- 堺 world
- 堰 dam
- 堪 withstand
- 塀 fence
- 睦 intimate
- 坑 pit
- 杜 woods
- 堕 degenerate
- 埴 clay
- 牡 male
And 97 more.
Words using 土
- 土曜日 (どようび) Saturday
- 土曜 (どよう) Saturday
- 土日 (どにち) weekend
- 出土 (しゅつど) archeological excavation (archaeological)
- 領土 (りょうど) territory
- 土地 (とち) plot of land
- 土地利用 (とちりよう) land use
- 露土戦争 (ろとせんそう) Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
- 土佐 (とさ) Tosa (former province located in present-day Kochi Prefecture)
- 土地柄 (とちがら) nature of the locality
- 土産 (みやげ) local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling
- 手土産 (てみやげ) present (brought by a visitor)
- 土産屋 (みやげや) souvenir shop
- 土産物店 (みやげものてん) souvenir shop
- 土産物 (みやげもの) souvenir
- 土 (つち) earth
- 安土桃山時代 (あづちももやまじだい) Azuchi-Momoyama period (approx. 1558-1600)
- 赤土 (あかつち) red clay
- 白土 (しらつち) white clay
- 黒土 (くろつち) black terracotta
- 土師器 (はじき) Haji ware
- 産土神 (うぶすながみ) guardian deity of one's birthplace
- 安土 (あずち) mound on which targets are placed (in archery)
- 土蜂 (ゆするばち) digger wasp
- 土 (に) soil (esp. reddish soil)
516 words in all.