EntryCommonJLPT N3WaniKani 2
  1. Noun

    earth; soil; dirt; clay; mud

    農家の人達は鋤で土を耕す。
    Farmers turn up the soil with plows.
  2. the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; the land

  3. low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud)

    see 鳥の子紙

  4. (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)

    also written as 犯土, 椎, 槌see 陰陽道

Also written 地【つち】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

soil, earth, ground, Turkey

Kun
つち
On
Strokes
3
Taught
Grade 1
JLPT
N5
Frequency
307 of 2500
Radical
earth
WaniKani
Level 2

Built from

Used in names as

つくひじ

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
4-3-2SKIP code
3b0.1The Kanji Dictionary
4010.0Four corner code
1472deroo
571fUnicode hex code
1-37-58JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1050Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
966New Nelson (John Haig)
3403New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4211Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2127Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2875Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
150Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
161Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
316A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
42Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
19Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
4867Morohashi
60A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
24Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
24Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
17sakade
37Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
19henshall3
22Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
360crowley
22Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1.Abusy_people
347Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
152Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
tu3Pinyin reading
to, duKorean reading
n5JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
2WaniKani level