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- earth
- dust
- clay
- local
- indigenous
- crude opium
- unsophisticated
- one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
Trad. 風土
- natural conditions and social customs of a place
- local conditions
Trad. 土壩
- earth dam
- dam of earth and rocks (as opposed to waterproof dam of clay or concrete)
- land auction; to sell land at auction (abbr. for 土地拍賣|土地拍卖[tu3 di4 pai1 mai4])
- cubic meter of earth (unit of measurement)
- excavated soil
- earthwork (abbr. for 土方工程[tu3 fang1 gong1 cheng2])
- (TCM) folk remedy
Trad. 土樓
- traditional Hakka communal residence in Fujian, typically a large multistory circular structure built around a central shrine
- Australia (slang term reflecting a perception of Australia as something of a backwater)
- native dog
- mole cricket (colloquial word for agricultural pest Gryllotalpa 螻蛄|蝼蛄[lou2 gu1])
- aardwolf (Proteles cristatus), a small insectivorous relative of the hyena
Trad. 土產
- produced locally
- local product (with distinctive native features)
- native state (term used by British Colonial power to refer to independent states of India or Africa)
Trad. 土鱉
- ground beetle
- (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海歸|海归[hai3 gui1], has never studied overseas
- (dialect) country bumpkin
- to break ground
- to start digging
- to plough
- to break through the ground (of seedling)
- fig. the start of a building project
Trad. 廢土
- waste soil (excavation waste, contaminated soil etc)
- (post-apocalyptic) wasteland
Trad. 淨土
- (Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit)
- (neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)
- to dig up
- to appear in an excavation
- unearthed
- to come up out of the ground
- (coll.) commie (derog., used by the KMT)
- CCP, the party of the people (used by CCP supporters)
- pro-Beijing camp (HK)
- (abbr.) Communist Party of Turkey
- (abbr.) Communist Party of Turkmenistan
- sliced bread (loanword from "toast")
- government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties
- water and soil
- surface water
- natural environment (extended meaning)
- climate
Trad. 土城區
- Tucheng, a district of New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 Shi4], Taiwan
Trad. 土庫鎮
- Tuku town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县[Yun2 lin2 xian4], Taiwan
Trad. 土撥鼠
- (zoology) marmot (in the US, esp. groundhog or woodchuck)
- one's body as wood and earth
- undecorated
- unvarnished (truth)
Trad. 土穀祠
- temple dedicated to the local tutelary god 土地神[tu3 di4 shen2] and the god of cereals
Trad. 土財主
- local wealthy landlord
- country money-bags
- rich provincial
Trad. 日土縣
- Rutog county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Ru thog rdzong
- local faction
- pro-localization faction (in Taiwanese politics)
- traditional Chinese building material made by mixing three components (typically lime, clay, and sand)
- country bumpkin
- boor
- unsophisticated country person (humble, applied to oneself)
- burial mound
- Tudi Gong, the local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion)
- local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion) (same as 土地公|土地公[Tu3 di4 Gong1])
Trad. 風土人情
- local conditions and customs (idiom)
- (of a stranger) not accustomed to the climate of a new place
- not acclimatized
- earth and wood framework (idiom); plain and undecorated body
Trad. 視如土芥
- to regard as useless
- to view as no better than weeds