Radical 32

土
← 31 Radical 32 (U+2F1F) 33 →
土 (U+571F) "earth"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	tǔ
Bopomofo:	ㄊㄨˇ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	tuu
Wade–Giles:	tʻu3
Cantonese Yale:	tóu
Jyutping:	tou2
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:	thó͘
Japanese Kana:	ド do / ト to (on'yomi) つち tsuchi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	토 to
Names
Chinese name(s):	(Left) 提土旁 títǔpáng (Left) 土字旁 tǔzìpáng (Bottom) 土字底 tǔzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):	(Left) 土偏/つちへん/どへん tsuchihen/dohen
Hangul:	흙 heuk
Stroke order animation

Radical 32 or radical earth (土部) meaning "earth" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 580 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

土 is also the 29th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Kangxi radical 33 (士 "scholar") is merged to this radical as an associated indexing component of the principal indexing component 土 in mainland China.

In the Chinese wuxing ("Five Phases"), 土 represents the element earth.

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  Oracle bone script character
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  Large seal script character
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As an independent character it is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1] It is a first grade kanji^[1]

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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