Kanji土
Readingつち
Frequency21%
Used in (79 in total)
earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
cloud of dust
country; territory; domain; realm
dust; cloud of dust
construction worker; laborer; labourer; navvy
Atypus karschi (Asian species of mygalomorph spider); tsuchigumo (people of ancient Japan who were not subjects of the Yamato court)
earth (color, colour); earthen; ashen; deathly pale
clay doll; clay figure; clay figurine
lump of earth; clod
earthenware pot
earth (color, colour); ashen; deathly pale
red clay; red earth; laterite; dark-red paint
earthen bridge
playing with dirt; gardening; farming (as a hobby)
to bury in the ground
earth god; earth deity
black terracotta; black soil
smelling of earth; rustic
to die; (lit.) to become earth
dungeon; underground prison
embankment (for road, railway, etc.); raising the ground level; fill
to defeat; to beat
to lose; to be defeated
arch of the foot; plantar arch
to cover with earth
plaster; wall clay; wall mud
to harden earth into a mass
peasant uprising (Muromachi period)
to die; (lit.) to become earth
white clay; white earth; kaolin; mortar
keeping soil in good condition
mounding earth; earthwork; banking; mounded earth; embankment; mound
to level the ground
making things out of dirt (for fun)
Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi)
ashes and earth; poor volcanic soil
unglazed earthenware
mud pie; seed ball ("nature farming" technique); deer truffle (Elaphomyces granulatus); false truffle
piling up or covering with earth
undefeated record; clean record; no losses
aardvark (Orycteropus afer)
kanji "earth" radical at left (radical 32)
covered with soil (of vegetables, etc.)
scoliid wasp (any wasp of family Scoliidae)
red soil aggregate; akadama; clay-like volcanic ash soil (used for bonsai, etc.)
bare ground revealed by melting snow
barren soil
tarantula (any spider of family Theraphosidae)
gloss; sheen (surface quality found in unglazed pottery)
earth taken from elsewhere and placed atop
boat for transporting earth; boat made from mud (in folktales)
Tsuchimikado Shinto (synthesis of Shinto and Onmyōdō formulated by Yasutomi Tsuchimikado in the mid-Edo period)
rammed earth; pisé (de terre); paste (for making pottery)
to rain dust; to have a dust storm
clay, straw, etc. mix used for intermediary wall coating
earth cut; cutting
decomposed granite
adding soil to a flowerbed
great burdock sold covered with soil
clay, straw, etc. mix used for rough undercoat of wall; cob
earth form of "good luck" character
earth sieve; dirt sifter
bundle of straw used as mulch
wrinkled frog (Rana rugosa)
Cyrtosia septentrionalis (species of orchid)
Chinese false gudgeon (Abbottina rivularis)
Meloe coarctatus (species of oil beetle)
blister beetle; oil beetle (insects family Meloidae)
barometer earthstar (Astraeus hygrometricus)