地 (dì)
Ground; floor; place; land.
How 地 is written
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 土 — earth
- Traditional
- 地
- Simplified
- 地 (unchanged)
Components
- 土 earth
- 乚 second
- ㇆ N/A
- 丨 line
地 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- de
- -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- dì
- earth; ground; field; place
Common words using 地
- 地主 dìzhǔ
- landlord; land-owner
- 地址 dìzhǐ
- address; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 地方 dìfāng
- region; regional (away from the central administration); local
- 不敗之地 bùbàizhīdì
- invincible position
- 內地 nèidì
- inland; interior
- 原地 yuándì
- former place; indigenous; local
- 土地 tǔdì
- land; soil; territory
- 地上 dìshang
- on the ground; on the floor
- 地下 dìxià
- underground; subterranean; covert
- 地位 dìwèi
- position; status; place
- 地區 dìqū
- local; regional; district (not necessarily formal administrative unit)
- 地圖 dìtú
- map; CL:張|张[zhang1],本[ben3]
地 in a sentence
地上很髒，請掃一下。
Dìshàng hěn zāng, qǐng sǎo yīxià.
“The floor is dirty, please sweep it.”
How common is 地?
地 is the 21st most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 20.2% of all running text.
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