Chinese symbol for “loam”
壤土
rǎng tǔ
(agriculture) loam; (literary) land; territory
The closest CC-CEDICT match for loam is 壤土 (rǎng tǔ), defined as: (agriculture) loam; (literary) land; territory.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 壤土.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 土壤 | tǔ rǎng | soil |
| 接壤 | jiē rǎng | to border on |
| 天壤之别 (天壤之別) | tiān rǎng zhī bié | (lit.) the difference between heaven and earth (idiom); (fig.) night and day difference; a world of difference; a far cry (from) |
| 穷乡僻壤 (窮鄉僻壤) | qióng xiāng pì rǎng | a remote and desolate place |
| 土壤学 (土壤學) | tǔ rǎng xué | pedology (soil study) |
| 土地 | tǔ dì | land; soil |
| 领土 (領土) | lǐng tǔ | territory |
| 本土 | běn tǔ | one's native country; native |
See also: Japanese symbol for “loam”.
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.