# 土 — Dirt

Frequency rank 289 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 配 (Distribute), less common than 校 (School).

- On’yomi: ど、と
- Kun’yomi: つち
- Radical: 土 Earth (Kangxi 32)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX

Rain undercuts the mound the gravedigger stamped flat, and the man he planted comes back down the hill as brown runoff, filling the neighbour's boots with Dirt.

In words:

- 土 つち — earth,soil
- 土曜日 どようび — Saturday
- 土産 みやげ — present,souvenir

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