つち
Meanings
Noun
1. earth; soil; dirt; clay; mud
2. the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; the land
3. low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud)
4. (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
also written as 犯土, 椎, 槌
Pitch accent
Top 34300
Used in vocabulary (58 in total)
red clay; tuff loam; dark-red paint
dust; cloud of dust
Examples (4 in total)
The fields dry up, and the soil cracks.
The air is soft, the soil moist.
The land on his farm is very fertile.
This earth is moist owing to the recent rain.