Kanji土
Readingつち
Frequency18%
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
lump of earth; clod
clay doll; clay figure; clay figurine
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
to die; (lit.) to become earth
smelling of earth; rustic
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
plaster; wall clay; wall mud
to harden earth into a mass
to cover with earth
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
Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi)
making things out of dirt (for fun)
ashes and earth; poor volcanic soil
mud pie; seed ball ("nature farming" technique); deer truffle (Elaphomyces granulatus); false truffle
undefeated record; clean record; no losses
piling up or covering with earth
unglazed earthenware
kanji "earth" radical at left (radical 32)
aardvark (Orycteropus afer)
covered with soil (of vegetables, etc.)
scoliid wasp (any wasp of family Scoliidae)
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
red soil aggregate; akadama; clay-like volcanic ash soil (used for bonsai, etc.)
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)