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  *地* | 地* | *地
earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:
HSK 1
on the ground / on the floor
HSK 1
stadium / sports ground / court / pitch / field / golf course / CL: 個|个, 處|处
HSK 2
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
playground / sports field / drill ground / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
floor / ground / surface
HSK 4
to fall down / to slip and fall / to throw sb to the ground
HSK 5
window / opening providing restricted access (e.g. customer service window) / computer operating system window / fig. medium / intermediary / showpiece / testing ground
HSK 6
army / ground forces
HSK 6
to dig up / to appear in an excavation / unearthed / to come up out of the ground
HSK 7-9
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 break new ground (for agriculture) / to open up (a new seam) / to develop (border regions) / fig. to open up (new horizons)
HSK 7-9
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
(of diverse emotions) to occur simultaneously; to intermingle / common ground; points of commonality; overlap; connection / interaction; dealings / (math.) (set theory) intersection
HSK 7-9
ground floor; first floor / lowest level; lowest rung (of society etc)
HSK 7-9
towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom) / great oaks from little acorns grow
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *抢* | 抢* | *抢
(literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage) / opposite in direction; contrary
feet not touching the ground (idiom) / to run like the wind
black-or-white (e.g. good or bad, with no middle ground)
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  *耖* | 耖* | *耖
harrow-like implement for pulverizing clods of soil / to level ground with such an implement
ground control (of airborne or space operation)
driving range (golf) / practice court / practice ground
lit. to eat but finely ground grain and finely chopped meat (idiom, from Analects) / fig. to be fastidious about one's food
(of clothing, furniture, walls etc) to get damp (by absorbing moisture from the air or the ground)
teeing ground (golf)
to seize (the strategic high ground)
to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground) / also written 磕頭|磕头
to break ground (prior to building sth) / to start building
training ground
lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom) / fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
lot / section of land / ground
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  *稽* | 稽* | *稽
to bow to the ground
Ground Zero
low-lying ground; depression
fishing ground
(sports) home ground; home field / (sports) home game / main venue (for a festival etc)
to level (ground) / to make level
(of an airplane etc) to fall to the ground and crash
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
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  *跑* | 跑* | *跑
(of an animal) to paw (the ground)
to break ground / to start digging / to plough / to break through the ground (of seedling) / fig. the start of a building project
to start sth new or original (idiom); to break a new path / to break fresh ground
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *夼* | 夼* | *夼
low ground / hollow / depression (used in Shandong place names)
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  *嚗* | 嚗* | *嚗
(onom.) sound of sth splitting or breaking apart / sound of an object falling to the ground / a cry of rage / Taiwan pr. [bo1]
enclosure / pig pen / hunting ground exclusively kept for emperor or nobility (in former times)
ground service (airport)
ground meat
ground meat / mincemeat
execution ground
hotbed / breeding ground / fig. breeding ground for crimes or sedition
(of an aircraft) to be grounded
lit. to make one's way through a dangerous pass as if walking on level ground (idiom) / fig. to handle a crisis effortlessly
to stay for a time / to stop over / to lodge / to sink down (into soft ground) / leftovers
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
to level the land / level ground / plain
(military) to fight on land; ground warfare
raised ground / bank
to counterattack / to come back after a defeat / to retrieve lost ground
lit. arising suddenly above the level ground (idiom); sudden emergence of prominent new feature
to level / to raze to the ground
yardstick / fig. criterion / ground rule
ten-pin bowling / bowling ball / (baseball etc) ground ball
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *碡* | 碡* | *碡
stone roller (for threshing grain, leveling ground etc) / Taiwan pr. [du2]
aircraft parking ground / apron / tarmac (at airport)
to stand one's ground against the opinion of the masses (idiom)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *埂* | 埂* | *埂
strip of high ground / low earth dyke separating fields
to sit on the ground or the floor (idiom)
to lie down / to drop to the ground
content to hold a small part of the territory / fig. forced to relinquish the middle ground / forced to move away
to level the ground (with a hoe, shovel etc); to raze (a building, forest etc)
(idiom) to put aside differences and work together; to seek common ground and cooperate
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  *埯* | 埯* | *埯
hole in the ground to plant seeds in / to make a hole for seeds / to dibble
douzhi, fermented drink made from ground mung beans / soy milk
execution ground
(idiom) to cry out to heaven and knock one's head against the ground (as an expression of anguish)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鲊* | 鲊* | *鲊
salted fish / dish made with ground vegetables, flour and other condiments
(onom.) (sound of sth smashing as it hits the ground) / (onom.) (sound made by a camera shutter)
stone roller (for threshing grain, leveling ground etc) / Taiwan pr. [lu4 du2]
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *耢* | 耢* | *耢
a kind of farm tool (in the form of a rectangular frame) used to level the ground / to level the ground by dragging this tool
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  *䗪* | 䗪* | *䗪
Chinese ground beetle (Eupolyphaga sinensis)
hidden stream / ground stream
to raze to the ground / to demolish
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *粞* | 粞* | *粞
ground rice / thresh rice
Chinese ground beetle (Eupolyphaga sinensis), used in TCM
to land / to touch the ground / also pr. [zhuo2 di4]
to thresh or husk grain on a threshing ground (dialect)
writing on the ground with a large brush dipped in water
ground floor / first floor
to have one's feet firmly planted on the ground (idiom); realistic without flights of fancy / steady and serious character
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 harrow / to break the ground with a hoe
freshly ground
to pick up (from the ground with one's hands)
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  *臽* | 臽* | *臽
(archaic) pit; hole in the ground / old variant of
ground meat; mincemeat
to bump one's head / to kowtow with head-banging on the ground
to fall to one's death / to kill by throwing to the ground
to make a fresh batch of sth (juice, pasta, spices etc); freshly made (or ground, squeezed, brewed etc)
lit. a lamb in a tiger's den (idiom) / fig. to tread dangerous ground
to fall to the ground

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