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

12 strokes
Radical:
earth
Parts:
Variants:
dike, bank, embankment
Kun:
つつみ
On:
テイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1658 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 堤防 【テイボウ】 bank, weir, embankment, levee
  • 提出 【テイシュツ】 presentation (of documents), submission (of an application, report, etc.), production (e.g. of evidence), introduction (e.g. of a bill), filing, turning in
  • 突堤 【トッテイ】 jetty, breakwater, pier
  • 神経堤 【シンケイテイ】 neural crest

Kun reading compounds

  • 堤 【つつみ】 bank, embankment, dike
  • 堤を築く 【つつみをきずく】 to build an embankment

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
di1, ti2
Korean:
je

Spanish

  • dique
  • malecón
  • terraplén
  • escollo

Portuguese

  • represa
  • dique

French

  • digue
  • berge
  • rive
1620 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1555 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1108 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1404 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1157 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1557 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1592 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1699 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1852 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
382 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
681 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
410 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
515 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
397 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5259 Morohashi
560 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1054 New Nelson (John Haig)
390 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
416 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1516 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1470 2001 Kanji
3b9.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
4618.1 Four corner code
1-36-73 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5824 Unicode hex code