土
tu3Mathews: 6532GSR: 62a
Dictionary Definition
(a, the) earth, soil, dirt, dust, land, ground, place, basis, region, locality, territory; (to be) typical, crude, common, native, of the place, local
Radical: 32+0 | First occurrence: Hexagram 30.T
Concordance & Context (1 occurrences)
Tuan Zhuan★
(the) earth, ground, soil, land, place, terrestrial
離麗，日月麗乎天，百糓草木麗乎土。重明以麗乎正，乃化成天下。柔麗乎中正，故亨。是以畜牝牛吉。
Arising
(Means) to be conditioned
The sun (and) moon (are) conditioned upon heaven
The hundreds of grasses, the plants
(and) the trees are conditioned upon the earth
Doubled clarity, accordingly, (is) conditioned upon the true
Then transformation completes (all things) under heaven
The flexible (is) conditioned upon the central (and) correct
Given this, fulfillment
And so it is that to care for the cow (is) promising
Stats: 32+0Hapax Legomenon
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