U+571F "土" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
土
U+571F "土" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character that represents the concept of earth, soil, or ground, and is classified as a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideograph used across multiple East Asian writing systems. Its shape depicts a mound of earth with horizontal lines, symbolizing the ground beneath one's feet, and it serves as a key radical in numerous compound characters related to land, territory, and physical materials. In various contexts, "土" can also denote local or indigenous qualities, as seen in words for native soil or uncultured simplicity, and it holds deep cultural significance in Chinese philosophy and cosmology as one of the five basic elements alongside fire, water, wood, and metal.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+571F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 土 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 土 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9C 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x571F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000571F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u571f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A467 |
| kCCCII | 213775 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4448 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4448 |
| kCangjie | G |
| kCantonese | tou2 |
| kCihaiT | 309.503 |
| kCowles | 4380 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0453.230 |
| kDefinition | soil, earth; items made of earth |
| kEACC | 213775 |
| kFanqie | 他魯 徒古 |
| kFenn | 43A |
| kFennIndex | 570.08 571.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4010.0 |
| kGB0 | 4533 |
| kGB1 | 4533 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0062a |
| kHangul | 토:0E |
| kHanYu | 10415.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | tǔ(858) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10415.010:tǔ,dù,chǎ,tú |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⼟[U+2F1F]:10415.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 0734 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0453.230 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10415.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0223.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4D41 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A467 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-455A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F0BF |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-774F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4448 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-504C |
| kJapanese | ド ト カ ケ ツ ズ タ テ つち |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:27 |
| kJapaneseKun | TSUCHI |
| kJapaneseOn | DO TO |
| kJis0 | 3758 |
| kKangXi | 0223.010 |
| kKorean | THO TWU |
| kLau | 3080 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0960 |
| kMandarin | tǔ |
| kMatthews | 6532 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3154 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008892 |
| kMorohashi | 04867 |
| kNelson | 1050 |
| kPhonetic | 1359 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3156+32.3.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 32.0 |
| kSBGY | 264.30 265.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 126.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | tǔ粵tou2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0960 |
| kTang | *tǒ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 372.140:tǔ |
| kTotalStrokes | 3 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thổ |
| kXerox | 243:121 |
| kXHC1983 | 1163.050:tǔ |