泥土 ní tǔ earth / soil / mud / clay syn 粪便 糞便 fèn biàn excrement / feces / night soil syn 干燥 乾燥 gān zào (of weather, climate, soil etc) dry / arid / (of skin, mouth etc) dry / (fig.) dull / dry / boring / (of timber etc) to dry out / to season / to cure syn 土壤 tǔ rǎng soil syn 流失 liú shī (of soil etc) to wash away / to be eroded / (fig.) (of talented staff, followers of a religious faith, investment funds etc) to go elsewhere / to fail to be retained syn 探子 tàn zi intelligence gatherer / spy / detective / scout / sound (medical instrument) / long and narrow probing and sampling utensil syn 松软 鬆軟 sōng ruǎn flexible / not rigid / spongy / soft or runny (not set hard) / loose (soil) syn 采样 採樣 cǎi yàng sampling 大粪 大糞 dà fèn human excrement / night soil (human manure traditionally used as agricultural fertilizer) syn 沙土 shā tǔ sandy soil 粪土 糞土 fèn tǔ dirty soil / dung and dirt / (fig.) worthless thing syn 乡土 鄉土 xiāng tǔ native soil / one's native land / one's hometown / local (to an area) syn 红土 紅土 hóng tǔ red soil / laterite syn 地力 dì lì fertility / productivity (of soil or land) syn 抽样 抽樣 chōu yàng sample / sampling syn 整地 zhěng dì to prepare the soil (agriculture) syn 土层 土層 tǔ céng layer of soil / ground level 黄土 黃土 huáng tǔ loess (yellow sandy soil typical of north China) 水汪汪 shuǐ wāng wāng watery / waterlogged (soil) / limpid / bright and intelligent (eyes) syn 水土 shuǐ tǔ water and soil / surface water / natural environment (extended meaning) / climate 灰土 huī tǔ dust / (soil taxonomy) spodosol syn 耕田 gēng tián to cultivate soil / to till fields syn 盐碱地 鹽鹼地 yán jiǎn dì saline soil / (fig.) infertile woman syn 土方 tǔ fāng cubic meter of earth (unit of measurement) / excavated soil / earthwork (abbr. for 土方工程[tu3 fang1 gong1 cheng2]) / (TCM) folk remedy syn 抽检 抽檢 chōu jiǎn sampling / spot check / random test 冬笋 冬筍 dōng sǔn winter bamboo shoots (smaller and tenderer as a result of being dug out before they come out of the soil) syn 轮作 輪作 lún zuò rotation of crops (to preserve fertility of soil) syn 土地 tǔ dì land / soil / territory / CL:片[pian4],塊|块[kuai4] syn 水土保持 shuǐ tǔ bǎo chí soil conservation syn 干裂 乾裂 gān liè (of dry soil etc) to crack / (of skin) to chap syn 追肥 zhuī féi top soil dressing / additional fertilizer 采样率 採樣率 cǎi yàng lǜ sampling rate 肥力 féi lì fertility (of soil) syn 松土 鬆土 sōng tǔ to plow (loosen the soil) 墒情 shāng qíng the state of moisture in the soil (and whether it can support a crop) 土力学 土力學 tǔ lì xué soil mechanics 趟 tāng to wade / to trample / to turn the soil syn 卤 鹵 lǔ alkaline soil / salt / brine / halogen (chemistry) / crass / stupid 壤 rǎng (bound form) soil / earth / (literary) the earth (contrasted with heaven 天[tian1]) syn 土温 土溫 tǔ wēn temperature of the soil syn 壅 yōng to obstruct / to stop up / to heap soil around the roots of a plant 垡 fá to turn the soil / upturned soil / (used in place names) syn 表土 biǎo tǔ surface soil / topsoil 保墒 bǎo shāng preservation of soil moisture 肥田 féi tián fertile land / to fertilize the soil syn 锄地 鋤地 chú dì to hoe / to weed the soil 土壤学 土壤學 tǔ rǎng xué pedology (soil study) 冻土层 凍土層 dòng tǔ céng permafrost / tundra / layer of frozen soil 垄 壟 lǒng ridge between fields / crop row / mounded soil forming a ridge in a field / grave mound syn 墒 shāng plowed earth / soil moisture / furrow 篑 簣 kuì basket for carrying soil 硗 磽 qiāo stony soil 砘 dùn (agriculture) to compact loose soil with a stone roller after sowing seeds / stone roller used for this purpose syn 埴 zhí soil with large clay content syn 板结 板結 bǎn jié soil crusting syn 薄地 bó dì barren land / poor soil syn 劐 huō (coll.) to slit with a knife / (variant of 耠[huo1]) hoe / to loosen soil with a hoe syn 蔂 léi to entwine / creeper / bramble / (literary) basket for carrying soil 蚖 yuán Protura (soil dwelling primitive hexapod) / variant of 螈, salamander / newt / triton 采样点 采樣點 sampling point / sampling site / sampling location 生土 shēng tǔ (agr.) immature soil / virgin soil 土壤生物多样性倡议 tǔ rǎng shēng wù duō yàng xìng chàng yì International Initiative on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Soil Biodiversity / Soil Biodiversity Initiative 东盟各国土壤绘图问题土壤会议 東盟各國土壤繪圖問題土壤會議 ASEAN Soil Conference on the Soil Mapping of Individual Countries 废土 廢土 fèi tǔ waste soil (excavation waste, contaminated soil etc) / (post-apocalyptic) wasteland 空气取样 空氣取樣 kōng qì qǔ yàng air sampling 烟囱口取样 yān cōng kǒu qǔ yàng sampling of a stack 分层抽样 stratified sampling 取样栅格 qǔ yàng zhà gé sampling grid 取样间隔 sample period / sampling interval 取样计划 sampling plan / sample plan 取样模式 qǔ yàng mú shì sampling pattern 取样包 qǔ yàng bāo sampling kit 取样作业 取樣作業 qǔ yàng zuò yè sampling operation 地球深部采样联合海洋学机构 地球深部采樣聯合海洋學機構 Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling 取样频率 取樣頻率 sampling frequency 整群抽样 整群抽樣 zhěng qún chōu yàng cluster sampling 全国生物危害物剂环境取样和探测会议 全國生物危害物劑環境取樣和探測會議 National Conference on Environmental Sampling and Detection for Bio-Threat Agents 水取样 水取樣 shuǐ qǔ yàng water sampling 离散抽样 離散抽樣 discrete sampling 分立取样 分立取樣 discrete sampling 非连续取样 非連續取樣 fēi lián xù qǔ yàng discrete sampling 分析和采样方法标准法典委员会 分析和采樣方法標準法典委員會 Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling 取样管 取樣管 qǔ yàng guǎn sampling tube 采样管 采樣管 sampling tube 抽样率 抽樣率 sampling rate / sample rate 排雷后检查 排雷後檢查 post-clearance inspection / post-clearance sampling 多阶段抽样法 多階段抽樣法 multi-stage sampling 连续采样 連續采樣 continuous sampling 概率取样 概率取樣 probability sampling 海底取样 海底取樣 bottom sampling 取样点数据 取樣點數據 sampling site data 取样站数据 取樣站數據 sampling station data 环境取样 環境取樣 environmental sampling 系统抽样 系統抽樣 systematic sampling 随机取样 隨機取樣 random sampling 保商 bǎo shāng preservation of soil moisture 磟 lù stone soil roller 墝 qiāo stony soil 涴 wò to soil 