壅土

Chinese

		obstruct; stop up	earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian
simp. and trad. (壅土)		壅	土

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yōngtǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄥ ㄊㄨˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yōngtǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄥ ㄊㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yongtǔ
    • Wade–Giles: yung¹-tʻu³
    • Yale: yūng-tǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iongtuu
    • Palladius: юнту (juntu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊŋ⁵⁵ tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Verb

壅土

1. (agriculture) to heap soil over and around the roots of plants

Synonyms

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• 培 (literary, or in compounds)
• 培土 (péitǔ)
• 培塗／培涂 (Hokkien)
• 培泥 (Zhao'an Hakka)
• 壅泥 (Taiwanese Hakka)

 

Noun

壅土

1. (agriculture) piled-up earth