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Mythic Mandarin

土 (Tǔ): meaning and stroke order

土 (Tǔ) means Tu (ethnic group), surname Tu, earth, dust, clay, local, indigenous, crude opium.

土

Simplified
土
Traditional
土 (same form)
Pinyin
Tǔ

Stroke order of 土

土

  • Tǔ Tu (ethnic group); surname Tu
  • tǔ earth; dust
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 土

  1. Tǔ
    • Tu (ethnic group)
    • surname Tu
  2. tǔ
    • earth
    • dust
    • clay
    • local
    • indigenous
    • crude opium
    • unsophisticated
    • one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

Radical and structure

土
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 3 strokes · 十 on top, 一 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 土

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).