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壤

rǎng

HSK 6 Character

What 壤 means

1. bound formsoil; earth
2. literarythe earth (contrasted with heaven {天|tiān})

Example sentences

• 这里的土壤肥沃。
  Zhèlǐ de tǔrǎng féiwò.
  The soil here is fertile.
• 平壤是北韩城市。
  Pyongyang is a city in North Korea.
• 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.
• 俄罗斯和中国接壤。
  éluósī hé Zhōngguó jiērǎng.
  Russia borders China.
• 平壤是北韩的首都。
  Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea.

Words starting with 壤

• 壤土rǎng tǔ(agriculture) loam; (literary) land; territory
• 壤塘县Rǎng táng XiànZamthang, a county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿坝藏族羌族自治州
• 壤塘Rǎng tángsee 壤塘县

Words containing 壤

• 土壤tǔ rǎngsoil
• 平壤Píng rǎngPyongyang, capital of North Korea
• 天壤之别tiān rǎng zhī bié(lit.) the difference between heaven and earth (idiom); (fig.) night and day difference…
• 接壤jiē rǎngto border on
• 穷乡僻壤qióng xiāng pì rǎnga remote and desolate place
• 月壤yuè rǎnglunar soil
• 沃壤wò rǎngfertile soil
• 黄壤huáng rǎngyellow soil (acidic, iron-rich soil of tropical and subtropical regions)…
• 土壤学tǔ rǎng xuépedology (soil study)
• 平壤市Píng rǎng shìPyongyang, capital of North Korea
• 熙壤xī rǎngvariant of 熙攘
• 熙熙壤壤xī xī rǎng rǎngvariant of 熙熙攘攘
• 霄壤之别xiāo rǎng zhī biésee 天壤之别

Characters built on 襄

These share the phonetic component 襄 (xiāng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 嚷rǎngto shout; to bellow; to make a big deal of sth
• 攘rǎng(literary) to push up one's sleeves; (literary) to reject; to resist…
• 穰rángabundant; stalk of grain
• 瓤rángpulp (of fruit); sth inside a covering; bad
• 曩nǎngin former times
• 禳rángsacrifice for avoiding calamity

Characters that look like 壤

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 灌guànto irrigate; to pour; to install (software)
• 嚷rǎngto shout; to bellow; to make a big deal of sth
• 靡míto waste (money)
• 攘rǎng(literary) to push up one's sleeves; (literary) to reject; to resist…
• 獾huānbadger
• 嚯huò(onomatopoeia) expressing admiration or surprise; (onomatopoeia) sound of a laugh

Sounds the same

Read rǎng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 嚷to shout; to bellow; to make a big deal of sth
• 攘(literary) to push up one's sleeves; (literary) to reject; to resist…