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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *地* | 地* | *地
earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:
HSK 1
stadium / sports ground / court / pitch / field / golf course / CL: 個|个, 處|处
HSK 2
on the ground / on the floor
HSK 1
floor / ground / surface
HSK 4
army / ground forces
HSK 6
window / opening providing restricted access (e.g. customer service window) / computer operating system window / fig. medium / intermediary / showpiece / testing ground
HSK 6
(of diverse emotions) to occur simultaneously; to intermingle / common ground; points of commonality; overlap; connection / interaction; dealings / (math.) (set theory) intersection
HSK 7-9
to come to a stop; to halt / to keep one's footing; to stay upright / (fig.) to hold one's ground; to gain a firm foothold / (of an assertion etc) to hold up; to be tenable
HSK 2
(idiom) (of a building etc) to rise out of the ground
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *登* | 登* | *登
to scale (a height) / to ascend / to mount / to publish or record / to enter (e.g. in a register) / to press down with the foot / to step or tread on / to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect) / to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *稽* | 稽* | *稽
to bow to the ground
playground / sports field / drill ground / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to break new ground (for agriculture) / to open up (a new seam) / to develop (border regions) / fig. to open up (new horizons)
HSK 7-9
to dig up / to appear in an excavation / unearthed / to come up out of the ground
HSK 7-9
to fall down / to slip and fall / to throw sb to the ground
HSK 5
to grow in open ground (as opposed to pot cultivation 盆栽)
ground floor; first floor / lowest level; lowest rung (of society etc)
HSK 7-9
to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground) / also written 磕頭|磕头
ground floor / first floor
Ground Zero
Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou) / Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung) / Sun Yat-sen University (Moscow), founded in 1925 as training ground for Chinese communists
to fall to the ground
(military) high ground / vantage point (providing a good view); commanding position (providing strategic advantage)
earth (wire) / ground
to have one's feet firmly planted on the ground (idiom); realistic without flights of fancy / steady and serious character
training ground
(sports) home ground; home field / (sports) home game / main venue (for a festival etc)
ground floor; first floor
to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground / tricky and inconstant / to make love
aircraft parking ground / apron / tarmac (at airport)
to stand one's ground against the opinion of the masses (idiom)
towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom) / great oaks from little acorns grow
(bird species of China) Turkestan ground jay; Pander's ground jay (Podoces panderi)
execution ground
black-or-white (e.g. good or bad, with no middle ground)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *铲* | 铲* | *铲
to scrape the ground with a spade (to make it level or to remove weeds); to shovel
HSK 7-9
snow-covered ground
to level / to raze to the ground
content to hold a small part of the territory / fig. forced to relinquish the middle ground / forced to move away
enclosure / pig pen / hunting ground exclusively kept for emperor or nobility (in former times)
ground pepper (i.e. powder)
to level the land / level ground / plain
layer of soil / ground level
ground troops
(airport) ground crew
to fall to the ground / to be set on the ground / to reach to the ground / to be born / (of a plane) to land
HSK 7-9
to mop the floor / (of a gown etc) to trail on the ground / full-length
to stand firm / to stand one's ground (in the face of adversity or pain)
to seize (the strategic high ground)
moderate faction / party of compromise / middle ground
lit. arising suddenly above the level ground (idiom); sudden emergence of prominent new feature
driving range (golf) / practice court / practice ground
on-the-ground promotion (abbr. for 地面推廣|地面推广)
yardstick / fig. criterion / ground rule
to lie down / to drop to the ground
to level the ground (with a hoe, shovel etc); to raze (a building, forest etc)
raised ground / bank
ground beetle / (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海歸|海归, has never studied overseas / (dialect) country bumpkin
lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom) / fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground)
teeing ground (golf)
lit. to eat but finely ground grain and finely chopped meat (idiom, from Analects) / fig. to be fastidious about one's food
to work high above the ground
(computing) to roll back / rollback / (sports) (of a ball) to come back (due to backspin or sloping ground)
lit. when you pull a radish out of the ground, some dirt comes up with it (idiom) / fig. to uncover, during the investigation of a crime, evidence of other crimes / to cause further problems while working on a problem
ground zero
(of an airplane etc) to fall to the ground and crash
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *埂* | 埂* | *埂
strip of high ground / low earth dyke separating fields
moral high ground
lit. to kowtow like grinding garlic (idiom) / fig. to pound the ground with one's head
ground attack aircraft
zhajiang mian, thick wheat noodles served with ground pork simmered in salty fermented soybean paste (or other sauce)
"ants climbing a tree", a Sichuan dish made with cellophane noodles 粉絲|粉丝 and ground meat (so called because the particles of meat clinging to the noodles look like ants on the twigs of a tree) / (sex position) man standing, woman clinging to his upper body / (erotic massage) full-body licking
to level (ground) / to make level
to stay for a time / to stop over / to lodge / to sink down (into soft ground) / leftovers
race course / race ground / race track
cutleaf ground-cherry / Physalis angulata
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *䗪* | 䗪* | *䗪
Chinese ground beetle (Eupolyphaga sinensis)
gruel made from coarsely ground maize
gruel made from maize ground finer than 大𥻗子
(idiom) to put aside differences and work together; to seek common ground and cooperate
feet not touching the ground (idiom) / to run like the wind
(military) caltrop (spiky metal device laid on the ground to create a hazard for enemy horses or troops in ancient times)
(bound form) coarsely ground maize
(dialect) coarsely ground maize / corn grit
gruel made from ground maize / corn grit congee
ground service (airport)
ground-to-air missile
ground meat / mincemeat
hidden stream / ground stream
to recover some lost ground (in a competition)
ground beetle
lit. to draw a line on the ground to keep within (idiom) / fig. to impose restrictions on oneself
(folk religion) moon blocks – a pair of crescent-shaped divination blocks thrown on the ground to seek a deity's response
(idiom) to sit on the ground or the floor
common ground
lot / section of land / ground
to forbid sb to go out / to confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc) / to ground (as disciplinary measure) / to gate / to curfew / restriction on movement / ban on visiting a place / out of bounds / off limits / caveat
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *耖* | 耖* | *耖
harrow-like implement for pulverizing clods of soil / to level ground with such an implement
to harrow / to break the ground with a hoe

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