Kanji: 土

    • Meaning : soil,earth,ground,Turkey
    • ON reading : ド,ト
    • KUN reading : つち
    • Nanori : つ,つく,は,ひじ
    • Stroke count : 3
    • Frequency of use ranking : 307
    • Jouyou grade level : 1
    • JLPT : 4
    • Radical :

Words containing that kanji:


  • - に - soil (esp. reddish soil)
  • | - おみやげ - present/souvenir
  • - ざんど - earth dug out of a construction site
  • - かいがいりょうど - overseas territory/overseas possession
  • - こくどこうつうしょう - Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation
  • - コンクリート | こんくりいと - concrete
  • - とさみずき - Corylopsis spicata/spike winter hazel
  • - トルコ - Turkey | turquoise
  • - あずちももやまじだい - Azuchi-Momoyama period (approx. 1558-1600 CE)
  • - おうど | こうど - earth/yellow soil/yellow ochre/loess/hades
  • - ちゅうせきど - alluvial soil
  • - おうど - royal or imperial domain
  • - かそうど - subsoil
  • - かもくど - Tue-Thurs-Sat
  • - かいど | はいつち - ashes and earth/poor volcanic soil
  • - きどるい - rare earth
  • - きゃくど | かくど - land which one visits/alien land/topsoil brought from another place to mix with the soil
  • - きゅうど - former property or territory
  • - きょうどりょうり - local cuisine
  • - きょうどしょうせつ - local story
  • - くど - this painful world/magnesia
  • - きょうど - native place/birth-place/one's old home
  • - けいそうど - diatomaceous soil
  • - どじょうがく - soil science/pedology
  • - どあつ - earth pressure
  • - こくどちょうちょうかん - Director General of National Land Agency
  • - つちあじ - gloss/sheen (surface quality found in unglazed pottery)
  • - こくぜんど - the whole nation
  • - こくど - country/territory/domain/realm
  • - どみ - local flavouring
  • - こくど | くろつち - black terracotta/black soil
  • - さくど - surface soil
  • - つちにんぎょう - clay doll/clay figure/clay figurine
  • - ど - Saturday | earth (third of the five elements)
  • | - つちぐも - Atypus karschi (Asian species of mygalomorph spider) | tsuchigumo (people of ancient Japan who were not subjects of the Yamato court)
  • - とちばいばいけいやくしょ - land sale contract
  • - こふどき - (as opposed to those compiled later) ancient fudoki compiled by imperial order in 713 CE
  • | - とけい | ときはかり - watch/clock/timepiece
  • - ゆするばち - digger wasp
  • - しゃこうきどぐう - "spaceman" clay figurine from about 500 AD
  • - つちばち | ツチバチ - scoliid wasp (any wasp of family Scoliidae)
  • - じゅうまんおくど - eternity/paradise
  • - かざんばいどじょう - volcanic ash soil
  • - しゅつど - appearance of an archeological find (archaeological)
  • - くほんじょうど - Amitabha's Pure Land (composed of nine levels)
  • - しゅつどひん - artifacts
  • - どぶくりょう - Smilax glabra (species of sarsaparilla, used esp. to refer to its dried rhizome, used in Chinese medicine)
  • - じょうど - Pure Land (esp. the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha) | Pure Land Buddhism
  • - いとせんそう - Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912)
  • - じょうそうど - topsoil
  • - あづちじだい - Azuchi period (first half of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, 1568-1582 CE)
  • - みやげひんてん - souvenir shop
  • - せんどきじだい - preceramic period
  • - ろとせんそう - Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
  • - みやげてん - souvenir shop
  • - ひめつちはんみょう | ヒメツチハンミョウ - Meloe coarctatus (species of oil beetle)
  • - つちがえる | ツチガエル - wrinkled frog (Rana rugosa)
  • - ねんどこうぶつ - clay mineral
  • - むどきじだい - preceramic period
  • - ぜんど - the whole nation (land, country)
  • - みやげひん - souvenir
  • き | き | - たたき | タタキ - mince (minced meat or fish) | robbery/extortion | hard-packed dirt (clay, gravel, etc.) floor/concrete floor
  • - でいど - mud
  • - つちへん - kanji "earth" radical at left
  • - ていど - imperial domain
  • - どま - dirt floor
  • どしゃり | り - どしゃぶり - downpour/pouring rain/cloudburst/pelting rain/heavy rain
  • - どじょう - soil
  • - どそう - burial/interment
  • - どたんば - last moment/eleventh hour | platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
  • - どちゃく - aboriginal/indigenous
  • - つくし - horsetail | scouring rush (plant)
  • - どよう - Saturday
  • - つちぼこり - dust
  • | - つちはんみょう | にわつつ - blister beetle/oil beetle (insects family Meloidae)
  • - どかい | つちくれ - lump of earth/clod
  • | - つち | つし - earth/soil/dirt | the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens)/the ground/the land | low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud) | (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in On'youdou)
  • - どき | かわらけ - earthenware | unglazed (bisque-fired) earthenware
  • れ - どしゃくずれ - landslide
  • - どじん - natives/aborigines
  • - どそく - shoes
  • - とち - plot of land/lot/soil
  • - つちぶた - aardvark (Orycteropus)
  • - どひょう - arena, esp. in sumo | forum (e.g. for discussion) | sandbag/gabion
  • - どようび - Saturday
  • - こくどあんぜんほしょうしょう - Department of Homeland Security/DHS
  • - どざえもん - drowned body of a person (after sumo wrestler Narusegawa Dozaemon)
  • - どて - embankment/bank
  • - どせき - earth and stones
  • - どだい - foundation/base/basis
  • - とちがら - local colour/local color
  • | のう - どのう - sandbag
  • - どぼく - public works
  • - どるい - earthen walls (of fortification)/earthwork/embankment
  • - とうど - frozen soil
  • - どげざ - kneeling down on the ground/prostrate oneself
  • - どけんや - general (civil engineering and construction) contractor
  • - みやげ - present/souvenir
  • - どせい - Saturn (planet)
  • - どぞく - local customs
  • - とちのひと - locals/natives
  • - どなべ - earthenware pot
  • - どべい - mud wall/earthen wall/plaster wall
  • - どよう - midsummer/dog days
  • - べいこくどあんぜんほしょうしょう - Department of Homeland Security/DHS
  • - ねんどしつ - slimy/clay-like
  • - ねんど | ねばつち - clay
  • | し - どびんむし - food steam-boiled in an earthenware teapot
  • - ひょうど - top soil
  • - ひんど - poor soil/poor country
  • - ふうどびょう - endemic disease/local disease
  • - ひらどま - pit/orchestra/parquet (in a theater, theatre)
  • - ふうど - natural features/topography/climate/spiritual features
  • - へんど - rural areas
  • | - こえつち - rich soil
  • - ほくべいどじん - American Indian/native American
  • いじり | り - つちいじり - playing with dirt | gardening/farming (as a hobby)
  • | - めいど - Hades/the underworld/the other world/realm of the dead
  • - どだん - dirt mound | dirt walls on the inside of the sunken hearth in a tea room | platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
  • アメリカ - アメリカこくどあんぜんほしょうしょう - Department of Homeland Security (US)/DHS
  • び - つちあそび - making things out of dirt (for fun)
  • - どけんぎょうしゃ - general (civil engineering and construction) contractor
  • - こくどこうつうだいじん - Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
  • - きょうどはくぶつかん - folk museum
  • - どめん - clay face (made like a mask or as a decoration)
  • - そっと - face of the earth
  • - りょうど - dominion/territory/possession
  • - みやげもの - souvenir
  • - とさけん | とさいぬ - tosa (Japanese dog breed)
  • - えど - this impure world (as opposed to the pure land) | feces/faeces
  • | - もぐら - mole
  • - さんせいど - acid soil
  • り - ねんどずくり - made of clay
  • - せいしんふうど - the spiritual climate
  • - どかた - construction worker/laborer (labourer)/navvy
  • - どちゃくみん - natives/aborigines
  • - どぐう - earthen (clay) figure
  • - どしゃ - earth and sand
  • - ふくど - covering up seeds with soil
  • - どほうがかい - complete collapse/(something) going to pieces (breaking up beyond repair)
  • - あかつち - red clay/tuff loam/dark-red paint
  • - つちがみ | どじん - earthgod/earth deity
  • - ほうど - realm/country
  • - ほうど - daimiate/fief
  • - ほんど - mainland/one's home country/the country proper
  • - どちゅう - (in the) earth/underground
  • - どぼくこうがくしゃ - civil engineer
  • - どぼくこうがく - civil engineering
  • - てみやげ - present (brought by a visitor)
  • - ふうどきこう - climate and natural features (of a region)
  • - りょくど - wooded area/verdant area
  • | | けん - けんどじゅうらい | けんどちょうらい - recouping one's strength for a renewed attack (on)/making another attempt with redoubled efforts
  • - せいじふうど - political climate
  • かず - つちつかず - clean record/undefeated
  • - どぞう - storehouse with thick (earthen) walls/godown
  • - えんりえど | おんりえど - abhorrence of (living in) this impure world
  • - どびん - earthenware teapot
  • - きこうふうど - climate and natural features (of a region)
  • - しょうど - scorched earth
  • - けいそうど - loam/humus | soil formed from fine volcanic ash
  • し - どようぼし - summer airing (of clothes)
  • - かんど - China
  • - こくどちりいん - Geographical Survey Institute
  • - つちいろ - earth (color, colour)/ashen/deathly pale
  • - こくどちょう - (Japanese) National Land Agency
  • り - どひょうまつり - ceremony to purify the ring before the start of sumo tournament
  • - はつどひょう - first tournament for a sumo wrestler
  • き - どひょうびらき - opening ceremony for the new ring in a sumo stable
  • - こうど - wasteland/barren or infertile soil
  • 西 - さいほうじょうど - Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise)
  • - へんど - remote region
  • り - かんれきどひょういり - former sumo grand champion's 60th birthday ring-entering ceremony
  • まり - どひょうだまり - waiting place for sumo wrestler beside the ring
  • - どひょうじんせい - sumo wrestler's active career
  • し - どひょうまわし - sumo wrestler's belt used in a bout
  • - さんせいはくど - (Japanese) acid clay
  • み - どようやすみ - summer vacation
  • - とちしゅうよう - land expropriation
  • | - とちかん - familiarity with the land | locality or terrain (usually associated with knowing or feeling the locality)
  • - どしょうぼね - one's innate character/spirit/backbone
  • い - つちくさい - smelling of earth/rustic
  • - どがま - earthen rice cooker
  • き - つちやき - unglazed earthenware
  • - どご - native tongue/dialect
  • - どじょうおせん - soil pollution
  • - どみん - a native
  • - つちけいろ - earth (color, colour)/ashen/deathly pale
  • - とちりよう - land use
  • - つちろう - dungeon
  • - どぞくがく - ethnography
  • - どひ - local rebels
  • - みやげばなし - tales of one's travels
  • - どかん - earthen pipe
  • まず - つちふまず - the arch of the foot
  • - どまんじゅう - burial mound
  • | - どこう - earthwork/earthworks | laborer/labourer/navvy/construction worker
  • - どようなみ - high waves which rise during the dog days of summer
  • - とちかいかく - land reform
  • - つちだんご - mud pie | seed ball ("nature farming" technique)
  • - どけんぎょう - the (civil engineering and) construction industry
  • り - どひょういり - entrance procession of sumo wrestlers into the ring
  • せ - つちよせ - piling up or covering with earth
  • - つちけむり - a cloud of dust
  • - どがま - earthen kiln
  • - どばし - an earthen bridge
  • - さんせいどじょう - acid soil
  • - すんど - an inch of land
  • - どぼくこうじ - public works
  • - どせきりゅう - avalanche of earth and rocks
  • - とちかいりょう - land improvement
  • - どびゃくしょう - (pejorative term for a) dirt-poor farmer
  • - どこう - a local ruler
  • - どひょうぎわ - the edge of a sumo ring/the edge or verge
  • - どさん | とさん - product of the land | present/souvenir
  • - どせい - clay/earthen
  • - どしつ - soil/soil quality
  • - どるいきんぞく - earth metal
  • - とうど - potter's clay/kaolin(e)
  • - おうどうらくど - Arcadia, presided over by a virtuous king
  • ミサイル - ほんどミサイルぼうえい - national missile defense (US) (defence)/NMD
  • - ふしょくど - humus (soil)/mold
  • - どこく - Turkey
  • - じゃっこうじょうど - paradise
  • - ふようど - humus/leaf mold/leaf mould
  • - ほっぽうりょうど - the Northern Territories
  • - こくどけいかく - national land planning
  • - じょうどしんしゅう - Jodo Shinshu (offshoot of the Jodo sect)
  • - きぎょうふうど - corporate culture
  • - じょうどきょう - Pure Land teachings
  • - うぶすながみ - guardian deity of one's birthplace
  • - かべつち - plaster
  • - さど - sand
  • - じょうどしゅう - Pure Land sect (of Buddhism)/Jodo (sect)
  • - ばいようど - potting soil/planting mix/compost
  • - えいきゅうとうど - permafrost
  • - ごくらくじょうど - Sukhavati (Amitabha's Pure Land)
  • - そこつち - subsoil
  • - かみねんど - papier-mache
  • 西 - せいど - western lands (China, India, etc.)/the West
  • - もりつち | もりど - embankment (for road, railway, etc.)/raising the ground level/fill
  • - はりもぐら - spiny anteater/echidna
  • - じど - kaolin
  • - とうど - China
  • - かざんばいど - volcanic ash soil
  • | - きど - rare earth
  • - おきつち - earth taken from elsewhere and placed atop
  • - こくどこうつうしょう - Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
  • - きどるいげんそ - rare earth elements
  • | きみやげ - おきみやげ - parting gift/remembrance/aftereffect
  • - しんど - subsoil
  • アルカリ - アルカリどるいきんぞく - alkali earth metal
  • - さしつち - adding soil to a flowerbed
  • - どれい - earthenware (ceramic) bell
  • - どてっぱら - guts
  • 鴿 | - どばと | ドバト - domestic pigeon/feral pigeon
  • - よくど - rich soil/fertile land
  • - きょうどぶんがく - folk literature
  • - きょうどあい - love for one's hometown
  • - どごう - local clan
  • - きょうどし - local history
  • - きょうどしょく - local color/local colour
  • - きょうどげいのう - folk entertainment
  • - こうど - arable soil
  • - ふんど - poor or filthy earth
  • - みやげものや - souvenir store/gift shop
  • - じょうもんしきどき - straw-rope pattern pottery/Jomon ware
  • め | め - どどめ - retaining wall/sheathing
  • - しょうどせんじゅつ - scorched-earth strategy (tactics)
  • - じょうもんどき - straw rope-patterned ancient Japanese pottery
  • - しゃど - red ocher
  • - やせつち - barren soil
  • - りょうどほぜん - maintenance of territorial integrity
  • - おうどいろ - ocher
  • - らくど - paradise
  • | | - つちぼたる - glowworm
  • - かいど - lump of earth
  • - つちかべ - mud wall
  • - こうりょうど - China clay/porcelain clay
  • えた - こえたつち - rich (fertile) soil
  • - しゅどうどあつけいすう - coefficient of active earth pressure
  • - もりつち - embankment
  • - ごんぐじょうど - seeking rebirth in the Pure Land
  • - さつど - small area/a pinch of earth
  • - たがやしうるとち - arable land
  • - せいしどあつけいすう - coefficient of earth pressure at rest
  • る - つちにかえる - to die/to return to mother earth
  • - びょうがくだいのとち - narrow strip of land
  • める - つちをかためる - to harden earth into a mass
  • - どさんほんせん - Dosan Main Line (Kochi-Kagawa Railway)
  • - どにち - weekend/Saturday and Sunday
  • | ど | ど - どまんなか - right in the center (centre)
  • - もくきんど - Thursday, Friday and Saturday
  • - じゅどうどあつけいすう - coefficient of passive earth pressure
  • - どこんじょう - disposition
  • き - どびんしき - tea cloth/teapot mat (rest)
  • める - つちにうめる - to bury in the ground
  • す - つちをならす - to level the ground
  • らかな - やわらかなつち - soft earth
  • - ふどき | ふうどき - description of regional climate, culture, etc.
  • せる - つちをかぶせる - to cover with earth
  • - まいどようび - every Saturday
  • - どだいいし - cornerstone/foundation stone