Chinese symbol for “plough”
破土
pò tǔ
to break ground; to start digging; to plough; to break through the ground (of seedling)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for plough is 破土 (pò tǔ), defined as: to break ground; to start digging; to plough; to break through the ground (of seedling); fig. the start of a building project.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 破土.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 破坏 (破壞) | pò huài | destruction; damage |
| 突破 | tū pò | to break through; to make a breakthrough |
| 打破 | dǎ pò | to break; to smash |
| 破产 (破產) | pò chǎn | to go bankrupt; to become impoverished |
| 破解 | pò jiě | to break (a bond, constraint etc); to explain |
| 破裂 | pò liè | to burst; to rupture; (of a relationship etc) to break down |
| 土地 | tǔ dì | land; soil |
| 领土 (領土) | lǐng tǔ | territory |
See also: Japanese symbol for “plough”.
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.