土tǔ
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Meanings
1. earth
2. dust
3. clay
4. local
5. indigenous
6. crude opium
7. unsophisticated
8. one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 (bāyīn)
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Examples3
It is still raining a lot today, and the soil is being broken up.
You can dig dirt from the ground.
Under the vast heaven, no land is not the king's land; at the edges of the land, no one is not the king's subject.