IDENTITY
土tǔsoil; earth
HSK 3Top 250
CORE MEANING
soil; earth
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.soil; earthHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 土earth radical (tǔ)
- strokes
- 3
- Structure
- single structure
- IDS sequence
- ⿱十一
- part of the structure
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
土地tǔdìland
土豆tǔdòupotato
泥土nítǔsoil
Graded examples
土里长出了小草。Tǔ lǐ zhǎng chū le xiǎo cǎo.HSK3
Little grass grew out of the soil.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 士
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A mound of earth with a plant sprouting on top.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #250
- Memory aid
- imagery
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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