2022年1月18日 · 土： 地面上的泥沙混合物 tǔ: a mixture of silt on the surface of the earth. I read, the original character shows a lump of clay on a potter's wheel. So, originally 土 referred to clay. 地：土 is in 地, on the left. On the right, the phonetic part is either a snake or maybe a wash basin. Drooze could tell us.

2013年6月26日 · 土 is the soil where plants grow. Therefore 土 is used to describe countryside concepts. 土 also means dust, kind of dull. However, 土 is a neutral word. It can be used as a positive adjective. It's actual meaning depends on the context and speaker's understanding of …

2017年10月16日 · 地, the radical is 土. It is made up of two parts, 土 and 也. It is 形声字（Phono-semantic compound characters）, which means it is made up of two parts, one shows it meaning, the other shows its sound. According to 说文解字 tab in zdic, 也 is the sound part, though 也 and 地 sound very differently now:

Things that contain「寺」may be written with「士」in the Taiwanese standard, while other regions (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan) use「土」. The decomposition listed on that page is based on the Taiwanese standard, but the handwriting animation is based on the Mainland Chinese standard.

2021年7月30日 · An additional semantic 「土」 eventually was added permanently, but other components like 「又」, 「止」, etc. were non crucial and didn't stick around. Unlike 「墬」, characters in this series could be concretely read as 「地」 (ground, earth). From the Warring States inscription 󱩃𧊒壺《殷周金文集成》9734:

2015年6月4日 · "土豪" is used to describe rich people with low taste or education. "豪" means rich. "土" is a synonym of "俗". In my opinion, "nouveau riche" is the best translation of "土豪". According to google, the definition of "nouveau riche" is:

2024年2月2日 · @zagrycha Yeah, looks like the context I'm reading this character in seems to be that way. I don't really believe the interpretation for "two people helping each other with clothes" since 吅 wasn't really present in the character during the older forms (Well maybe expect on 樂子簠 inscription where 口 was added and 土 transformed into a circle (〇)).

2022年10月19日 · 动前“土”，名前“白”，动形中间“双人”来。 Use 地 (土字旁) before verbs, 的 (白字旁) before nouns, and 得 (双人旁) between a verb and an adverb. Example:

2024年11月17日 · I'm not sure if it helps since I'm coming from studying Japanese, but 士 looks very similar to 土 which I know as soil, earth. So I would remember that SwitzerLAND ends in a character that looks like one that means land. (As long as that doesn't cause you to get 士 and 土 mixed up -- they only look similar!)

2018年6月19日 · Those differences may be in a certain stroke (e.g. one character has an extra stroke 大 & 太, or a difference in length 士 & 土, or a difference in angle/order of strokes 千 干), or there are parts of those characters that are different (e.g. 熱 & 熟).