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
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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.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	土
+1	圠 圡
+2	圢 圣 (also SC of 聖 -> Radical 128) 圤 圥 圦 圧JP (=壓) 㘦
+3	在 圩 圪 圫 圬 圭 圮 圯 地 圱 圲 圳 圴 圵 圶 圷 圸 圹SC (=壙) 场SC (=場)
+4	圻 圼 圽 圾 圿 址 坁 坂 坃 坄 坅 坆 均 坈 坉 坊 坋 坌 坍 坎 坏SC (=壞; also variant of 坯) 坐 坑 坒 坓 坔 坕 坖 块SC (=塊) 坘 坙 坚SC (=堅) 坛 坜SC (=壢) 坝SC (=垻/壩) 坞SC (=塢) 坟SC (=墳) 坠SC (=墜) 㘧 㘨 㘩 㘪 㘫 㘬 㘭 㘮JP nonstandard (=墿) 㘯 (=場) 㘰
+5	坡 坢 坣 坤 坥 坦 坧 坨 坩 坪 坫 坬 坭 坮 坯 坰 坱 坲 坳 坴 坵 坶 坷 坸 坹 坺 坻 坼 坽 坾 坿 垀 垁 垂 垃 垄SC (=壟) 垅SC (=壠) 垆SC (=壚) 垇 垈 垉 垊 㘱 㘲 㘳 㘴 (=坐) 㘵
+6	型 垌 垍 垎 垏 垐 垑 垒SC (=壘) 垓 垔 垕 垖 垗 垘 垙 垚 垛 垜 (=垛) 垝 垞 垟 垠 垡 垢 垣 垤 垥 垦 垧 垨 垩SC (=堊) 垪 垫SC (=垫) 垬 垭SC (=埡) 垮 垯SC (=墶) 垰 (JP) 垱SC (=壋) 垲SC (=塏) 垳 垴SC/variant (=堖) 垵 城 㘶 㘷 㘸 㘹 㘺 㘻 㘼 㘽 㘾 埩SC variant
+7	垶 垷 垸 垹 垺 垻 垼 垽 垾 垿 埀 埁 埂 埃 埄 埅 埆 埇 埈 埉 埊 埋 埌 埍 埏 埐 埑 埒 埓 (=埒) 埔 埕 埖 埗 埘SC (=塒) 埙SC (=塤) 埚SC (=堝) 埛 﨏 㘿 㙀 㙁 㙂 㙃 㙄 㙅 㙆
+8	埜 (=野 -> 里) 埝 埞 域 埠 埡 埢 埣 埤 埥 埦 埧 埨 埩TC variant 埫 埬 埭 埮 埯 埰 埱 埲 埳 埴 埵 埶 執 埸 培 基 埻 埼 埽 埾 埿 堀 堁 堂 堃 堄 堅 堆 堇 堈 堉 堊 堋 堌 堍 堎 堏 堐 堑SC (=塹) 堒 堓 堔 堕SC/JP (=墮) 堵 㙇 㙈 㙉 㙊 㙋 㙌SC (TC form unavailable) 㙍
+9	埪 堖 堗 堘 堙 堚 堛 堜 堝 堞 堟 堠 堡 堢 堣 堤 堥 堦 堧 堨 堩 堪 堫 堬 堭 堮 堯 堰 報 堲 堳 場 堶 堷 堸 堹 堺 堻 堼 堾 堿 塀 塁JP (=壘) 塂 塄 塅 塆SC (=壪) 塇 塈 㙎 㙏 㙐 㙑 㙒 㙓 㙔 㙕 㙖 㙗 㙘 塊SC variant 塭SC variant
+10	堽 塃 塉 塊TC variant 塋 塌 塍 塎 塏 塐 塑 塒 塓 塔 塕 塖 塗 塘 塙 塚 塛 塜 塝 塞 塟 塠 塡Kangxi/JP standard/KO (=填) 塢 塣 塤 塥 塦 塧 塨 塩JP (=鹽) 塪 填 塬 塭TC variant 塮 塯 塰 塱 塞 塚 㙙 㙚 㙛 㙜 㙝 㙞 㙟
+11	塲 (=場) 塳 塴 塵 塶 塷 塸 塹 塺 塻 塼 塽 塾 塿 墀 墁 墂 境 墄 墅 墆 墇 墈 墉 墊 墋 墌 墍Kangxi/JP/KO (=塈) 墎 墏 墐 墑 墒 墓 墔 墕 墖 増JP (=增) 墘 墙SC (=牆 -> 爿) 墚 墛 㙠 㙡 㙢 㙣 㙤 㙥 㙦 墴SC variant
+12	墜 墝 增 墟 墠 墡 墢 墣 墤 墥 墦 墧 墨 墩 墪 墫 墬 墭 墮 墯 墰 墱 墲 墳 墴TC variant 墵 墶 墷 墸 墹 㙧 㙨 㙩 㙪 㙫 㙬 㙭 㙮 㙯
+13	墺 墻 (=牆 -> 爿) 墼 墽 墾 墿 壀 壁 壂 壃 壄 壅 壆 壇 壈 壉 壊JP (=壞) 壋 壌JP (=壤) 㙰 㙱 㙲 㙳 㙴 㙵 㙶
+14	壍 壎 壏 壐 壑 壒 壓 壔 壕 壖 壗 㙷 㙸 㙹 㙺
+15	壘 壙 㙻 㙼 㙽
+16	壚 壛 壜 壝 壞 壟 壠 壢 㙾 㙿
+17	壣 壤 壥 㚀
+18	壦
+20	壧 壨
+21	壩 㚁
+22	壪 㚂

As an independent sinogram

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]

References

Literature

• 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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