HSK 6 · Nature

土壤 tǔrǎng “soil” in Chinese

Said as túrǎng

Same in Traditional

What 土壤 means

  1. soil

How to say 土壤

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale土tǔ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale壤rǎng3rd tone, dipping

Said as túrǎng. When two third tones meet, the first one rises into a second tone. You still write it with two third tones. How tone changes work

土壤 in a sentence

  1. 这是非常好的土壤。

    Zhè shì fēicháng hǎo de tǔrǎng.

    This is very good soil.

    Sentence #5993945 from Tatoeba

  2. 这里的土壤肥沃。

    Zhèlǐ de tǔrǎng féiwò.

    The soil here is fertile.

    Sentence #778745 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 土壤被雨水冲走了。

    Tǔrǎng bèi yǔshuǐ chōngzǒu le.

    The rain washed away the soil.

    Sentence #1313982 from Tatoeba

How 土壤 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 土 (tǔ) with each of its parts in a different colour
土tǔearth
  • 十ten · shí
  • 一one · yī
The character 壤 (rǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
壤rǎngsoil; earth
  • 土earth · tǔMeaning part
  • 襄to aid · xiāngSound part

土 hints at the meaning (earth); 襄 (xiāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with rǎng.

How to write 土壤

土 3 strokes · 壤 20 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

土壤 (tǔrǎng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 土壤 (tǔrǎng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 土壤

Words with 土

土豆tǔdòu · potato土地tǔdì · land领土lǐngtǔ · territory风土人情fēngtǔrénqíng · local customs and conditions

More words: Nature & Environment

饲养sìyǎng · to raise台风táifēng · typhoon天然气tiānránqì · natural gas田野tiányě · fields温带wēndài · temperate zone窝wō · nest溪xī · stream霞xiá · rosy clouds

FAQs

土壤 (tǔrǎng) means “soil”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tǔrǎng: tǔ with a 3rd tone, then rǎng with a 3rd tone. In speech it sounds like túrǎng. When two third tones meet, the first one rises into a second tone. You still write it with two third tones. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 土壤 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type turang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 土壤 from the suggestions. Typing turang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
土壤 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.