Chinese symbol for “unearthed”
出土
chū tǔ
to dig up; to appear in an excavation; unearthed; to come up out of the ground
The closest CC-CEDICT match for unearthed is 出土 (chū tǔ), defined as: to dig up; to appear in an excavation; unearthed; to come up out of the ground.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 出土.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 出现 (出現) | chū xiàn | to appear; to arise; to emerge; to show up |
| 出来 (出來) | chū lái | to come out; to appear |
| 提出 | tí chū | to raise (an issue); to propose |
| 指出 | zhǐ chū | to indicate; to point out |
| 出版 | chū bǎn | to publish |
| 土地 | tǔ dì | land; soil |
| 领土 (領土) | lǐng tǔ | territory |
| 本土 | běn tǔ | one's native country; native |
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.