Today’s first #kanji is #土, which makes its own radical. Some say this is a logograph and others say a pictograph. Don’t confuse this with 士 or 上.
Meaning: soil, land
Reading: ト、ド、つち
土地（トチ）: (a piece of) land, soil, a locality
土曜日（ドヨウび）: Saturday
土足（ドソク）禁止（キンシ）: [sign] Please take off your shoes. Shoes Off
土木（ドボク）工事（コウジ）:engineering works
本土（ホンド）: the mainland, the country proper
領土（リョウド）: a territory, a dominion, a domain
粘土（ネンド）: clay
土（つち）: earth, soil, the ground
土（つち）がつく: [in sumo] to lose, to take a fall, to bite the dust
土（つち）となる: to die, to be buried (in …)
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