COMPONENT GUIDE
The “土” component
tǔ · earth
Found in 211 indexed Chinese characters.
Characters containing 土
edge of a tortoiseshell
to press
old form of 崖 (cliff) and 涯 (bank)
to go
to spit
to make a circuit
stingy
Chinese character
(bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc)
Chinese character
to exist; to be alive
(dialect) country fair
(phonetic)
to plaster
jade tablet, square at the base and rounded or pointed at the top, held by the nobility at ceremonies
destroyed
bridge, bank
earth
(dialect) drainage ditch between fields (Taiwan pr. [zun4])
tomb
large place used for a specific purpose
boundary
Chinese character
used in 垃圾[la1 ji1]
foundation of a building (variant of 址[zhi3])
Chinese character
equal
workshop
old variant of 笨[ben4]
to collapse
pit
bad
to sit
pit; depression; hollow
to compare
lump; chunk; piece
altar
hole, pit
dam
(bound form) low area within a surrounding barrier
grave
to fall
slope
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing earth
flat
(bound form) lump
crucible
a plain
stand for goblets
Chinese character
blank (e.g. for a coin)
depression; cavity; hollow
a clod of earth
Chinese character
uneven (path)
islet
to crack
used in 垃圾[la1 ji1]
ridge between fields
old variant of 壟|垄[long3]
clay
mold
field
rampart
boundary
to restrain
embankment
battlement
limit
to turn the soil
dirt
wall
anthill
to reclaim (land)
unit of land area (equivalent to 10 or 15 mǔ 畝|亩[mu3] in parts of northeast China, but only 3 or 5 mǔ in northwest China)
to whitewash
pad
(dialect) strip of land between hills
to collapse (lit. or fig.)
used in 圪墶|圪垯[ge1da5]
dry terrain
small hill
Chinese character
strip of high ground
dust
landmark used during the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD)
raised path
to bury
city walls
to mix water with clay
(literary) equal
used in place names
earthen jar
wharf
hen roost
ocarina
crucible
earth embankment used to hold back or retain water
field
wharf
Chinese character
low wall
dam
hole in the ground to plant seeds in
used in 塕埲[weng3beng3]
soil with large clay content
solid earth
border
to bank up with earth
(bound form) base; foundation
headland
dike
cave
(main) hall
Chinese character
Chinese character
to pile up
clay
Chinese character
target in archery
side of bridge
(bound form) moat; chasm
to fall; to sink
bury
battlements
mounds for beacons
(bound form) fortress; stronghold
dike
(bound form) may; can
weir
Chinese character
to block up (a road, pipe etc)
Chinese character
elevated bank around a field
Chinese character
Chinese character
to collapse
raised path between fields
to model (a figure) in clay
pagoda
flying dust (dialect)
Chinese character
dyke
Chinese character
Chinese character
dry clay lump
to fill or stuff
plateau, esp. Loess Plateau of northwest China 黃土高原|黄土高原[Huang2 tu3 Gao1 yuan2]
Chinese character
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private school
courtyard
to plaster
border
villa
fortified wall
Chinese character
plowed earth
grave
wall (CL:面[mian4],堵[du3])
Chinese character
Chinese character
(bound form) to increase; to augment; to add to
ruins
ink stick
block
Chinese character
Chinese character
Chinese character
(bound form) unfired brick
Chinese character
wall
to obstruct
Chinese character
gully
Chinese character
moat
Chinese character
Chinese character
Chinese character
Chinese character
(bound form) soil; earth
Chinese character
surname Zhu
to dawdle
Buddhist temple
dust
trusted
farmstead
market place
birchleaf pear (tree)
Chinese character
kitchen stove
(of a bird, animal or plant) male
king or monarch
to be born
field
border
bury
(bound form) society; organization; agency
Chinese character
Chinese character
tripe
to arrive
used in 茳芏[jiang1 du4]
(literary) a grave
red
to walk
lining
thorium (chemistry)
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