苦土

Chinese

		bitter; intensely; miserable bitter; intensely; miserable; painful	earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian
trad. (苦土)		苦	土
simp. ^#(苦土)		苦	土

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kǔtǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄨˇ ㄊㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fu² tou²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: kǔtǔ [Phonetic: kútǔ]
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄨˇ ㄊㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: kǔtǔ
  - Wade–Giles: kʻu³-tʻu³
  - Yale: kǔ-tǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuutuu
  - Palladius: куту (kutu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: fu² tou²
  - Yale: fú tóu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fu² tou²
  - Guangdong Romanization: fu² tou²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː³⁵ tʰou̯³⁵/

Noun

苦土

(mineralogy) magnesia

Japanese

Kanji in this term
苦	土
く Grade: 3	ど Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) くど [kúꜜdò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [kɯ̟do̞]

Noun

苦(く)土(ど) • (kudo)

magnesia, magnesium oxide

Derived terms

苦土石灰(くどせっかい) (kudosekkai): magnesia lime
苦土素(くどそ) (kudoso): magnesium
菱苦土石(りょうくどせき) (ryōkudoseki): magnesite

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN