沙土

Chinese

		granule; hoarse; raspy granule; hoarse; raspy; sand; powder; tsar	earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian
simp. and trad. (沙土)		沙	土
alternative forms		砂土

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shātǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄚ ㄊㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saa¹ tou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shātǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄚ ㄊㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shatǔ
    • Wade–Giles: sha¹-tʻu³
    • Yale: shā-tǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shatuu
    • Palladius: шату (šatu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂä⁵⁵ tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saa¹ tou²
    • Yale: sā tóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saa¹ tou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sa¹ tou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saː⁵⁵ tʰou̯³⁵/

Noun

沙土

1. sandy soil

   從沙土中淘金／从沙土中淘金  ―  cóng shātǔ zhōng táojīn  ―  to pan for gold in sand

Synonyms

• 沙質土／沙质土 (shāzhìtǔ)
• (Hokkien) 沙塗／沙涂 (soa-thô͘), 塗沙／涂沙 (thô͘-soa)

Hypernyms

• 土壤 (tǔrǎng)

Derived terms

• 沙土植物