The horizontal line at the bottom of the ancient pictogram for "土" represented the ground and the part above represented a pile of earth. With its upper part turned into a line, the pictogram became the simplified Chinese character for "earth".
字义:
soil; earth
组词:
土地:tǔdì/land; ground
领土(領土):lǐngtǔ/territory
黄土(黃土):huángtǔ/loess
土豆:tǔdòu/ potato
土星:tǔxīng/Saturn
土匪:tǔfěi/brigand
例句:
1、我爱吃土豆。 Wǒ ài chī tǔdòu . I like eating potatoes.
2、中国西北部有很多黄土。 Zhōngguó xīběi bù yǒu hěnduō huángtǔ. There is a lot of loess in the northwest of China.
3、这块土地要出租了。 Zhè kuài tǔdì yào chūzū le. The land will be offered for rent.