土
/tʰu²¹⁴/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•earth; soil · dust · land
Etimoloji
Pictogram 象形 (xiàngxíng): a mound of earth. In oracle-bone inscriptions, it could also refer to the soil deity, serving as the original graph of 社 (shè). The mound later became narrowed or pointed at both ends, with the broad middle part developing into the horizontal stroke. Unrelated to the top component of 夌, 走, and 周; also unrelated to the central component of 金 and the overall character 圭.…