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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

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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

15 strokes
Radical:
foot 足 (⻊)
Parts:
step, trample, carry through, appraise, evade payment
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
723 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 踏破 【トウハ】 travelling (a long and difficult journey) on foot, walking (all the way) across, travelling through, hiking across, traversing, travelling all over (e.g. a country), visiting all the major locations (of a region, etc.)
  • 踏襲 【トウシュウ】 following (a precedent, former policy, etc.), continuing with, sticking to, observing
  • 前人未到 【ゼンジンミトウ】 untrodden (region, field of study, etc.), unprecedented (discovery, achievement, etc.)
  • 高踏 【コウトウ】 highbrow, aloof, transcendent

Kun reading compounds

  • 踏む 【ふむ】 to step on, to tread on, to trample on, to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil), to stand on, to visit, to experience, to undergo, to follow (rules, principles, etc.), to go through (e.g. formalities), to complete, to estimate, to guess, to judge, to value, to appraise, to rhyme, to succeed to (e.g. the throne)
  • 踏まえる 【ふまえる】 to be based on, to take into account, to build upon, to have origin in, to have one's feet firmly planted on, to plant oneself on

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ta4, ta1
Korean:
dab

Spanish

  • pisar
  • pisotear

Portuguese

  • passo
  • atropelar
  • persistir
  • avalia
  • escapar de pagamento

French

  • marcher
  • monter sur
  • piétiner
  • évaluer
  • basé sur
  • réaliser
  • éviter de payer
1657 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1067 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4571 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1186 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1795 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2314 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1559 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1662 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
266 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1766 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1997 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1066 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1435 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1296 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
37602 Morohashi
1587 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5889 New Nelson (John Haig)
1287 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1381 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1806 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3778 2001 Kanji
7d8.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-8 SKIP code
6216.3 Four corner code
1-38-07 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8e0f Unicode hex code