tǔ
earth
dust
clay
local
indigenous
crude opium
unsophisticated
one of the eight ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
Tǔ
Tu (ethnic group)
surname Tu
tǔ yào rì
traditional Chinese name for Saturday
tǔ dì
land
soil
territory
CL:片[pian4],塊|块[kuai4]
huáng tǔ
loess (yellow sandy soil typical of north China)
shuǐ tǔ
water and soil
surface water
natural environment (extended meaning)
climate
chū tǔ
to dig up
to appear in an excavation
unearthed
to come up out of the ground
fēng tǔ
natural conditions and social customs of a place
local conditions
gù tǔ
native country
one's homeland
tǔ mù
building
construction
civil engineering
pò tǔ
to break ground
to start digging
to plough
to break through the ground (of seedling)
fig. the start of a building project
tǔ shēng tǔ zhǎng
locally born and bred
indigenous
home-grown
dà xīng tǔ mù
to carry out large scale construction
xiāng tǔ
native soil
one's native land
one's hometown
local (to an area)
Tǔ kù màn
Turkmenistan
Republic of Turkmenistan, former Soviet republic adjoining Iran
běn tǔ
one's native country
native
local
metropolitan territory
tǔ sī
sliced bread (loanword from "toast")
government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
juǎn tǔ chóng lái
lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom)
fig. to regroup and come back even stronger
to make a comeback
tǔ jiàn
civil engineering
same as 土木工程[tu3 mu4 gong1 cheng2]
guó tǔ
country's territory
national land
jìng tǔ
(Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit)
tǔ dòu
potato
CL:個|个[ge4]
(Tw) peanut
CL:顆|颗[ke1]
Rì tǔ
Rutog county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Ru thog rdzong
fēng tǔ rén qíng
local conditions and customs (idiom)
huáng tǔ gāo yuán
loess plateau of northwest China
tǔ céng
layer of soil
ground level