土
Meanings
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- 1.earth
- 2.dust
- 3.clay
- 4.local
- 5.indigenous
- 6.crude opium
- 7.unsophisticated
- 8.one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[bā yīn]
- 1.surname Tu
- 2.Tu ethnic group
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- 1.earth; soil
- 2.dust
- 3.land
- 4.earth, one of the five elements of Wu Xing (五行 (-))
- 5.crude opium
- 6.hometown; native place
- 7.local; native; indigenous
- 8.rustic; unsophisticated; uncouth; vulgar; tasteless; uncultured
- 9.indigenous; traditional and used by the common people
- 10.the Tu ethnic group; Monguor people; White Mongol
- 11.rude; boorish; rough; philistine
- 12.a surname
- 13.an ancient river
- 14.only used in 土苴 (chǎzhǎ)
- 15.only used in 土門／土门 (Túmén)
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Etymology
Pictogram 象形 (xiàngxíng): a mound of earth. In oracle-bone inscriptions, it could also refer to the soil deity, serving as the original graph of 社 (shè). The mound later became narrowed or pointed at both ends, with the broad middle part developing into the horizontal stroke. Unrelated to the top component of 夌, 走, and 周; also unrelated to the central component of 金 and the overall character 圭. There is no obvious cognate and etymology, unless it may be related to Proto-Austroasiatic *tiʔ (Proto-Monic *tiiʔ (“soil; ground consisting of earth”), Semnam tɛʔ (“soil; earth”)). However, this would require the assumption of a shift from front vowel to Old Chinese *a (Schuessler, 2007). Probably related to 社 (OC *ɦljaːʔ, “god of soil; altar to god of soil”).
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