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土壤

tǔ rǎng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

土壤 (tǔ rǎng) means "soil". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 土壤 means

1. soil

The characters in 土壤

• 土tǔearth; dust; clay
• 壤rǎng(bound form) soil; earth; (literary) the earth (contrasted with heaven 天

Example sentences

• 这里的土壤肥沃。
  Zhèlǐ de tǔrǎng féiwò.
  The soil here is fertile.
• 这是非常好的土壤。
  Zhè shì fēicháng hǎo de tǔrǎng.
  This is very good soil.
• 土壤被雨水冲走了。
  Tǔrǎng bèi Yǔshuǐ chōngzǒu le.
  The rain washed away the soil.
• 这个土壤似乎长不出任何东西来。
  Zhège tǔrǎng sìhū cháng bù chūrèn hé dōngxi lái.
  Nothing seems to grow in this soil.
• 某些绣球花的颜色取决于土壤的酸碱值：土壤酸性越强，花朵颜色越蓝。
  The colour of some hydrangeas is determined by the pH value of the soil: the more acidic it is, the bluer the flowers are.

Words starting with 土壤

• 土壤学tǔ rǎng xuépedology (soil study)

Where 土壤 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · tǒng–tǔ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tǔ rǎng correctly.
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