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  *地* | 地* | *地
earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:
HSK 1
the earth
HSK 2
life (one's time on earth)
HSK 3
the human world / the earth
HSK 5
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  *土* | 土* | *土
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音
HSK 3
(coll.) what the hell?; what on earth? (expression of confusion, disbelief or annoyance)
Earth's magnetic field; geomagnetism
atmosphere (surrounding the earth) / imposing; impressive; stylish
HSK 7-9
on earth
lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper / right and unalterable / a matter of course
HSK 7-9
earth / mother earth
HSK 7-9
actinoids (rare earth series), namely: actinium Ac89 錒|锕, thorium Th90 釷|钍, protoactinium Pa91 鏷|镤, uranium U92 鈾|铀, neptunium Ne93 鎿|镎, plutonium Pu94 鈈|钚, americium Am95 鎇|镅, curium Cm96 鋦|锔, berkelium Bk97 錇|锫, californium Cf98 鐦|锎, einsteinium Es99 鎄|锿, fermium Fm100 鐨|镄, mendelevium Md101 鍆|钔, nobelium No102 鍩|锘, lawrencium Lr103 鐒|铹
five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood , fire , earth , metal , water
lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times
heaven and earth / world / scope / field of activity
HSK 7-9
earth's gravity
the whole earth / the universe
earth (wire) / ground
the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放|大鸣大放, 大辯論|大辩论, 大字報|大字报 (PRC)
domain / territory under one's control / foundation of a building / base of operations / crust of earth
to split heaven and earth apart (idiom); refers to the Pangu 盤古|盘古 creation myth
HSK 7-9
world / earth
frozen earth / permafrost / tundra
not to know the immensity of heaven and earth / an exaggerated opinion of one's own abilities
burial (in earth)
hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive / fig. having an uncomfortable time
lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess
earth; soil; mud; clay
HSK 7-9
earth (electric connection) / to earth
Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you. / Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
heaven and earth / yin and yang
plain / simple / guileless / down-to-earth / sincere and honest
HSK 7-9
lit. the difference between heaven and earth (idiom) / fig. night and day difference; a world of difference; a far cry (from)
heaven on Earth / nickname for the city Suzhou
lit. to rebuke Heaven and Earth (idiom); fig. shaking the whole world / all-powerful
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  *培* | 培* | *培
to bank up with earth / to cultivate (lit. or fig.) / to train (people)
earth-shattering
lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance
(geology) (the earth's) mantle
horizon / ends of the earth / remotest places
Kosmos, series of earth-orbit satellites operated by the Soviet Union and subsequently Russia
the surface (of the earth)
lit. a gulf between heaven and earth (idiom) / fig. wide difference of opinion
in touch with the common people / down-to-earth
sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head
HSK 7-9
Kṣitigarbha, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head
rare earth (chemistry)
rare earth element (chemistry)
to orbit the Earth
Earth orbit (orbit of a satellite around the Earth) / Earth's orbit (orbit of the Earth around the Sun)
the earth quaked, the mountains shook (idiom); a tremendous battle
the ends of the earth / separated worlds apart
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
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  *尘* | 尘* | *尘
dust / dirt / earth
Sputnik, Soviet artificial Earth satellite / also written 斯普特尼克
heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster / fig. violent revolution / major social upheaval
lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering / omnipresent / of universal importance
lanthanoid (rare earth series), namely: lanthanum La57 鑭|镧, cerium Ce58 鈰|铈, praseodymium Pr59 鐠|镨, neodymium Nd60 釹|钕, promethium Pm61 鉕|钷, samarium Sm62 釤|钐, europium Eu63 銪|铕, gadolinium Gd64 釓|钆, terbium Tb65 鋱|铽, dysprosium Dy66 鏑|镝, holmium Ho67 鈥|钬, erbium Er68 鉺|铒, thulium Tm69 銩|铥, ytterbium Yb70 鐿|镱, lutetium Lu71 鑥|镥
lit. able to support both heaven and earth / of indomitable spirit (idiom)
expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea
yellow soil (acidic, iron-rich soil of tropical and subtropical regions) / (literary) yellow earth; loess / (literary) the underworld
yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe
fearing nothing in Heaven or Earth (idiom) / fearless
rare earth element
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  *埂* | 埂* | *埂
strip of high ground / low earth dyke separating fields
the earth's magnetic field
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
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  *坤* | 坤* | *坤
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing earth / female principle // ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest)
to shake heaven and earth (idiom)
to vanish / to disappear from the face of the earth
Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth)
August Heaven; Heaven as supreme deity (often paired with 后土, the Earth Deity)
empty room, clean field (idiom); clean out everything to leave nothing for the enemy / scorched earth policy
the three gods in charge of heaven, earth and water (Daoism)
(geology) (the earth's) mantle (Tw)
to heap earth (to close a tomb) / a mound (covering a tomb)
lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering / a radical change
earth-shattering / breakthrough / remarkable and original work
vanished from the face of the earth / all gone / nothing left
pair of annual sacrificial ceremonies held by the emperor in ancient times: one in the southern suburbs of the capital (bringing offerings to Heaven) and another in the northern suburbs (with offerings to Earth)
Ceaseless pain (Sanskrit: Avici), one of the Buddhist hells / fig. hell / hell on earth
to construct a rammed-earth wall
beyond the earth / outer space
(loanword from Mongolian) road or boundary marker made of piled up earth or stones, formerly worshipped as the dwelling place of spirits
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  *畚* | 畚* | *畚
a basket or pan used for earth, manure etc
state / country / the Gods of earth and grain
Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth / see 香格里拉市
to obliterate completely / to vanish from the face of the earth
an earth-shaking noise (idiom)
Temple of Earth (in Beijing)
rammed earth
what are you doing? / whatever for? / why on earth?
lit. eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth (idiom) / fig. arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive
Arirang, famous Korean song of love and tragic separation, based on folk tale from Georyo dynasty / Arirang, series of Korean earth observation space satellites
earth dam / dam of earth and rocks (as opposed to waterproof dam of clay or concrete)
the Earth's crust
lit. to go up to heaven or down to Hades (idiom) / fig. to go to great lengths / to search heaven and earth
earth science

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