Chinese symbol for “earthen”
土制
tǔ zhì
Traditional: 土製
homemade; earthen
The closest CC-CEDICT match for earthen is 土制 (tǔ zhì), defined as: homemade; earthen.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 土制.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 土地 | tǔ dì | land; soil |
| 领土 (領土) | lǐng tǔ | territory |
| 本土 | běn tǔ | one's native country; native |
| 土壤 | tǔ rǎng | soil |
| 国土 (國土) | guó tǔ | country's territory; national land |
| 控制 | kòng zhì | to control |
| 制度 | zhì dù | system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc); institution |
| 限制 | xiàn zhì | to restrict; to limit |
See also: Japanese symbol for “earthen”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.