Chinese symbol for “soil”
土壤
tǔ rǎng
soil
The closest CC-CEDICT match for soil is 土壤 (tǔ rǎng), defined as: soil.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “soil”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 壤 | rǎng | (bound form) soil; earth; (literary) the earth (contrasted with heaven 天 (tiān)) |
| 土地 | tǔ dì | land; soil |
| 泥土 | ní tǔ | earth; soil; mud; clay |
| 涴 | wò | to soil |
| 薶 | wō | to make dirty; to soil |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 土壤.
| 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 |
| 国土 (國土) | guó tǔ | country's territory; national land |
| 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 |
| 壤土 | rǎng tǔ | (agriculture) loam; (literary) land; territory |
See also: Japanese symbol for “soil”.
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.