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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
floor / ground / surface
HSK 4
playground / sports field / drill ground / CL: 個|个
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
ground floor; first floor / lowest level; lowest rung (of society etc)
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *坑* | 坑* | *坑
pit; depression; hollow / tunnel; hole in the ground / (archaic) to bury alive / to hoodwink; to cheat (sb)
HSK 7-9
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
(of diverse emotions) to occur simultaneously; to intermingle / common ground; points of commonality; overlap; connection / interaction; dealings / (math.) (set theory) intersection
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *铲* | 铲* | *铲
to scrape the ground with a spade (to make it level or to remove weeds); to shovel
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *铲* | 铲* | *铲
to scrape the ground with a spade (to make it level or to remove weeds); to shovel (variant of 剷|铲) / (bound form) spade; shovel
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *跑* | 跑* | *跑
(of an animal) to paw (the ground)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *抢* | 抢* | *抢
(literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage) / opposite in direction; contrary
ground beetle / (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海歸|海归, has never studied overseas / (dialect) country bumpkin
(sports) home ground; home field / (sports) home game / main venue (for a festival etc)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蟅* | 蟅* | *蟅
locust / Chinese ground beetle (Eupolyphaga sinensis)
to seize (the strategic high ground)
to have one's feet firmly planted on the ground (idiom); realistic without flights of fancy / steady and serious character
to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground) / also written 磕頭|磕头
layer of soil / ground level
to break ground (prior to building sth) / to start building
earth (wire) / ground
lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom) / fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
lot / section of land / ground
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *稽* | 稽* | *稽
to bow to the ground
low-lying ground; depression
fishing ground
hunting ground
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
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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *夼* | 夼* | *夼
low ground / hollow / depression (used in Shandong place names)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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]
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
cold weather, frozen ground (idiom); bitterly cold
enclosure / pig pen / hunting ground exclusively kept for emperor or nobility (in former times)
to stay for a time / to stop over / to lodge / to sink down (into soft ground) / leftovers
to level the land / level ground / plain
(military) to fight on land; ground warfare
to counterattack / to come back after a defeat / to retrieve lost ground
(of clothing, furniture, walls etc) to get damp (by absorbing moisture from the air or the ground)
to level / to raze to the ground
yardstick / fig. criterion / ground rule
ten-pin bowling / bowling ball / (baseball etc) ground ball
aircraft parking ground / apron / tarmac (at airport)
to stand one's ground against the opinion of the masses (idiom)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塽* | 塽* | *塽
(literary) elevated sunlit ground
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
lit. to be confined within a circle drawn on the ground (idiom) / fig. to confine oneself to a restricted range of activities
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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground)
lit. to eat but finely ground grain and finely chopped meat (idiom, from Analects) / fig. to be fastidious about one's food
to level; to raze to the ground
execution ground
(idiom) to cry out to heaven and knock one's head against the ground (as an expression of anguish)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鲊* | 鲊* | *鲊
salted fish / dish made with ground vegetables, flour and other condiments
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *碡* | 碡* | *碡
stone roller (for threshing grain, leveling ground etc) / Taiwan pr. [du2]
(onom.) (sound of sth smashing as it hits the ground) / (onom.) (sound made by a camera shutter)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *粞* | 粞* | *粞
ground rice / thresh rice
strip of high ground / low earth dyke separating fields
lit. to make one's way through a dangerous pass as if walking on level ground (idiom) / fig. to handle a crisis effortlessly
stone roller (for threshing grain, leveling ground etc) / Taiwan pr. [lu4 du2]
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *䗪* | 䗪* | *䗪
Chinese ground beetle (Eupolyphaga sinensis)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *醊* | 醊* | *醊
pour libation on ground
hidden stream / ground stream
to raze to the ground / to demolish
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *耖* | 耖* | *耖
harrow-like implement for pulverizing clods of soil / to level ground with such an implement
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)
raised ground / bank
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
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)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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

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