Jisho

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3 strokes
Radical:
earth
Parts:
soil, earth, ground, Turkey
Kun:
つち
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
307 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 土 【ド】 Saturday, earth, dirt, soil, land, lands, ground, earth (third of the five elements)
  • 土地 【トチ】 plot of land, lot, soil, locality, region, place
  • 浄土 【ジョウド】 pure land (esp. the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha), (Buddhist) paradise, Pure Land Buddhism
  • 郷土 【キョウド】 native place, birth-place, one's old home, province, region, locality
  • 土 【ト】 Turkey
  • 時計 【トケイ】 clock, watch, timepiece
  • 下土 【カド】 lower world, this world, the earth
  • 率土 【ソット】 ends of the earth, outer reaches, borderland

Kun reading compounds

  • 土 【つち】 earth, soil, dirt, clay, mud, the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens), the ground, the land, low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud), (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
  • 土方 【どかた】 construction worker, laborer (labourer), navvy
  • 盛り土 【もりど】 embankment (for road, railway, etc.), raising the ground level, fill
  • 赤土 【あかつち】 red clay, red earth, laterite, dark-red paint

Readings

Japanese names:
つく、 は、 ひじ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tu3
Korean:
to, du

Spanish

  • suelo
  • tierra
  • Turquía

Portuguese

  • solo
  • terra
  • chão
  • Turquia

French

  • sol
  • terre
  • terrain
  • Turquie
17 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
19 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
60 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
316 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1050 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
19 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
37 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
42 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1.A Japanese for Busy People
24 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
24 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
22 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
347 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4211 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2127 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2875 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
152 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
4867 Morohashi
3403 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
966 New Nelson (John Haig)
150 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
161 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
360 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
22 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1472 2001 Kanji
3b0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-2 SKIP code
4010.0 Four corner code
1-37-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
571f Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
earth
Parts:
bury, be filled up, embedded
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1110 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 埋蔵 【マイゾウ】 burying in the ground, having underground deposits
  • 埋葬 【マイソウ】 burial

Kun reading compounds

  • 埋める 【うめる】 to bury (e.g. in the ground), to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall), to cause to be packed, to plug (a gap), to stop (a gap), to bridge (a difference, a gap), to fill (a seat, a vacant position), to fill out (a form, a sheet), to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.), to make amends, to compensate for, to put cold water (in a bath), to cover, to scatter something over
  • 埋まる 【うまる】 to be buried, to be covered, to be surrounded, to overflow, to be crowded, to be filled, to be repaid (e.g. debt), to be replenished, to be filled (e.g. blank, vacancy, schedule)
  • 埋もれる 【うもれる】 to be buried, to be covered, to be hidden
  • 埋める 【うずめる】 to cover, to bury (e.g. one's face in hands), to submerge, to fill (completely), to stuff, to pack, to cram, to fill up
  • 埋まる 【うまる】 to be buried, to be covered, to be surrounded, to overflow, to be crowded, to be filled, to be repaid (e.g. debt), to be replenished, to be filled (e.g. blank, vacancy, schedule)
  • 埋ける 【いける】 to bury (in the ground), to cover (coals) with ash, to bank (a fire), to get (charcoal) going (in a hibachi)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mai2, man2
Korean:
mae

Spanish

  • enterrado
  • relleno
  • incrustado
  • ser enterrado
  • ser rellenado
  • enterrar
  • rellenar
  • incrustar

Portuguese

  • enterrar
  • ocupar-se
  • embutido

French

  • enterrer
  • être rempli
  • enfoncé
1833 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1226 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1084 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1615 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
432 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1041 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1826 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1975 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1261 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
375 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
484 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
300 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
364 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
181 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5116 Morohashi
403 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1020 New Nelson (John Haig)
179 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
191 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1319 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1472 2001 Kanji
3b7.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
4611.4 Four corner code
1-43-68 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
57cb Unicode hex code