Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N5

307 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 3

Meaning: soil, earth, ground, Turkey

Kunyomi: つち

Onyomi:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: つち

Meaning: earth

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

曜日(どようび)   Saturday

日(どにち)   Saturday and Sunday

(きょうど)   birth place

地(とち)   plot of land

(つち)   soil

色(つちいろ)   earth colored

*産(みやげ)   local product, souvenir

Onyomi Examples

Saturday, earth, dirt, soil, land, lands, ground, earth (third of the five elements)

トチ plot of land, lot, soil, locality, region, place

ジョウド pure land (esp. the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha), (Buddhist) paradise, Pure Land Buddhism

キョウド native place, birth-place, one's old home, province, region, locality

Turkey

時計 トケイ clock, watch, timepiece

カド lower world, this world, the earth

ソット face of the earth

Kunyomi Examples

つち earth, soil, dirt, clay, mud, the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens), the ground, the land, low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud), (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)

どかた construction worker, laborer (labourer), navvy

盛り もりど embankment (for road, railway, etc.), raising the ground level, fill

あかつち red clay, red earth, laterite, dark-red paint