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lot
Stroke count: 16

Readings

On readingジョウ
Kun readingつち

Meanings

  1. lotRtK
  2. earth
    植物は土壌で育つ。Plants are nourished by earth.tatoeba
  3. soil
    土壌が悪いと木は育てられない。You can't get a tree to grow on bad soil.tatoeba
    植物は土壌から水分をとる。Plants take in water from the soil.tatoeba

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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soil (土) · dirt (土) · ground (土) · grass skirt · top hat (亠) · eight (八) · six (六) · animal legs (儿) · celery · scarf (冂)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1649

Compound words

栽培に適した土壌を得るには耕さなければならない。
In order to get the soil ready for planting you must plow it.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

朝鮮民主主義人民共和国の首都は平壌である
ちょうせんみんしゅしゅぎじんみんきょうわこくのしゅとはぴょんやんであるThe capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is Pyongyang.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

16 strokes

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