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:
insect
Parts:
Variants:
barbarian
Kun:
えびす
On:
バン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2339 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蛮勇 【バンユウ】 foolhardiness, recklessness, savage valour, savage valor, brute courage
  • 蛮行 【バンコウ】 act of barbarity, barbarism, brutality, savagery
  • 南蛮 【ナンバン】 southern barbarians (name used in ancient China for non-Chinese ethnic groups to the south), South-East Asian countries (in the late-Muromachi and Edo periods), Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal and their South-East Asian colonies; late-Muromachi and Edo periods), foreign (of goods from South-East Asia and Western Europe), exotic (esp. in a Western European or South-East Asian style), chili pepper, nanban, dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions, thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm; in kabuki, dance, puppetry, etc.)
  • 生蕃 【セイバン】 unconquered savage, uncivilized aboriginal, aboriginal Taiwanese tribes outside Qing China's jurisdiction

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
man2
Korean:
man

Spanish

  • bárbaro
  • extranjero
  • violento

Portuguese

  • bárbaro

French

  • barbare
1722 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1894 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
322 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1390 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1718 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1879 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2044 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1825 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1609 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2638 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1347 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1827 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1763 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
33044 Morohashi
2129 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5314 New Nelson (John Haig)
1747 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1884 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1580 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
471 2001 Kanji
2j10.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-10 SKIP code
2-6-6 SKIP code
0013.6 Four corner code
1-40-58 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
86ee Unicode hex code