Radical 32
Kangxi radical meaning 'earth' / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"土" redirects here. For the similar-looking mathematical sign, ±, see Plus–minus sign.
Radical 32 or radical earth (土部) meaning "earth" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
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土 | ||||
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土 (U+571F) "earth" | ||||
Pronunciations | ||||
Pinyin: | tǔ | |||
Bopomofo: | ㄊㄨˇ | |||
Gwoyeu Romatzyh: | tuu | |||
Wade–Giles: | tʻu3 | |||
Cantonese Yale: | tóu | |||
Jyutping: | tou2 | |||
Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | thó͘ | |||
Japanese Kana: | ド do / ト to (on'yomi) つち tsuchi (kun'yomi) | |||
Sino-Korean: | 토 to | |||
Names | ||||
Chinese name(s): | (Left) 提土旁 títǔpáng (Left) 土字旁 tǔzìpáng (Bottom) 土字底 tǔzìdǐ | |||
Japanese name(s): | (Left) 土偏/つちへん/どへん tsuchihen/dohen | |||
Hangul: | 흙 heuk | |||
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 580 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
土 is also the 29th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Kangxi radical 33 (士 "scholar") is merged to this radical as an associated indexing component of the principal indexing component 土 in mainland China.
In the Chinese wuxing ("Five Phases"), 土 represents the element earth.