surname Tu; Tu ethnic group

territory

country's territory; national land

earth; soil; mud; clay

one's native country; native; local; metropolitan territory

concrete (building material)

dust

old-fashioned; unstylish

happy place; paradise; haven

to bury; buried; interred

native country; one's homeland

China-Turkey; Sino-Turkish

(literary) the Central Plains of China; (literary) China

the East; China

native soil; one's native land; one's hometown; local (to an area)

frozen earth; permafrost; tundra

(Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit)

to dig up; to appear in an excavation; unearthed; to come up out of the ground

to break ground (prior to building sth); to start building

(neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)

Earth Deity (often paired with 皇天[Huang2 tian1], August Heaven)

(geology) silt

to earth up

moist, newly-tilled soil

(agriculture) loam; (literary) land; territory

rammed earth

to guard one's territory; to protect the country

to heap earth (to close a tomb); a mound (covering a tomb)

waste soil (excavation waste, contaminated soil etc); (post-apocalyptic) wasteland

subsoil

freshly dug up earth

see 日土縣|日土县[Ri4 tu3 Xian4]

to plow (loosen the soil)

water and soil; surface water; natural environment (extended meaning); climate

fertile land

sandy soil

topsoil; surface dust

dust; (soil taxonomy) spodosol

raw opium

homeland; hot piece of real estate

scorched earth

(agr.) immature soil; virgin soil

farmland

territory

to break ground; to start digging; to plough; to break through the ground (of seedling); fig. the start of a building project

alkaline soil

rare earth (chemistry)

silt; silty soil

dirty soil; dung and dirt; (fig.) worthless thing