Illustration: On a small apartment balcony, a woman lifts a tomato plant from its nursery pot above a shallow gardening tray. The exposed root ball breaks slightly, sending loose crumbs of earth between her fingers into a soft mound.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

土つち

tsuchi

soil, dirt

Example sentences

種たねの上うえに少すこし土つちをかぶせなさい。
Cover the seeds with a little earth.
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彼女かのじょは植木鉢うえきばちに新あたらしい土つちを入いれた。
She put new soil in the flower pot.
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かれは土つちに水みずをやった。
He watered the soil.
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Kanji in 土

土soil; earthOnド・トKunつち

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