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  *地* | 地* | *地
earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:
HSK 1
the earth / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
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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
life (one's time on earth)
HSK 3
the human world / the earth
HSK 5
heaven and earth / world / scope / field of activity
HSK 7-9
atmosphere (surrounding the earth) / imposing; impressive; stylish
HSK 7-9
earth / mother earth
HSK 7-9
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  *拱* | 拱* | *拱
to cup one's hands in salute / to surround / to arch / to dig earth with the snout / arched
HSK 7-9
plain / simple / guileless / down-to-earth / sincere and honest
HSK 7-9
to split heaven and earth apart (idiom); refers to the Pangu 盤古|盘古 creation myth
HSK 7-9
sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head
HSK 7-9
lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper / right and unalterable / a matter of course
HSK 7-9
earth; soil; mud; clay
HSK 7-9
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  *尘* | 尘* | *尘
dust / dirt / earth
earth (electric connection) / to earth
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  *堪* | 堪* | *堪
(bound form) may; can / (bound form) to endure; to bear / (in 堪輿|堪舆) heaven (contrasted with earth 輿|舆)
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)
yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe
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  *坤* | 坤* | *坤
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing earth / female principle // ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest)
five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood , fire , earth , metal , water
rare earth (chemistry)
lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering / omnipresent / of universal importance
state / country / the Gods of earth and grain
to earth up
the surface (of the earth)
world / earth
the whole earth / the universe
to tamp / to ram (earth etc)
lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom) / fig. to change the course of events / to turn things around
on earth
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  *祇* | 祇* | *祇
god of the earth
expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea
earth-moving machine / mechanical digger
sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head
(loanword from Mongolian) road or boundary marker made of piled up earth or stones, formerly worshipped as the dwelling place of spirits
lit. to go up to heaven or down to Hades (idiom) / fig. to go to great lengths / to search heaven and earth
(geology) (the earth's) mantle
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  *培* | 培* | *培
to bank up with earth / to cultivate (lit. or fig.) / to train (people)
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  *壤* | 壤* | *壤
(bound form) soil; earth / (literary) the earth (contrasted with heaven )
domain / territory under one's control / foundation of a building / base of operations / crust of earth
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  *舆* | 舆* | *舆
(literary) chassis of a carriage (contrasted with the canopy ) / (literary) (fig.) the earth (while the carriage canopy is a metaphor for heaven); land; territory / (literary) carriage / (literary) sedan chair; palanquin / (bound form) the multitudes; the people; the public
earth (wire) / ground
the ends of the earth / separated worlds apart
equator (of the earth or a celestial body) / celestial equator
heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster / fig. violent revolution / major social upheaval
horizon / ends of the earth / remotest places
frozen earth / permafrost / tundra
the earth's ocean / the hydrosphere (geology)
lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess
heaven and earth / yin and yang
the earth's core / geocentric
to shake heaven and earth (idiom)
to heap earth (to close a tomb) / a mound (covering a tomb)
earth dam / dam of earth and rocks (as opposed to waterproof dam of clay or concrete)
Temple of Earth (in Beijing)
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  *垍* | 垍* | *垍
hard earth
(coll.) (emphasizing a rhetorical question) what / what kind / why on earth
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  *坴* | 坴* | *坴
a clod of earth / land
cubic meter of earth (unit of measurement) / excavated soil / earthwork (abbr. for 土方工程) / (TCM) folk remedy
lit. to rebuke Heaven and Earth (idiom); fig. shaking the whole world / all-powerful
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  *墒* | 墒* | *墒
plowed earth / soil moisture / furrow
to obliterate completely / to vanish from the face of the earth
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  *雘* | 雘* | *雘
red earth used for paints
lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering / omnipresent / of universal importance
scorched earth
the sky spins, the earth goes round (idiom); giddy with one's head spinning / fig. huge changes in the world
hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive / fig. having an uncomfortable time
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  *梩* | 梩* | *梩
basket for removing earth / spade
counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
lit. able to support both heaven and earth / of indomitable spirit (idiom)
the Earth's crust
burial (in earth)
the earth quaked, the mountains shook (idiom); a tremendous battle
rammed earth
lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times
lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance
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  *埂* | 埂* | *埂
strip of high ground / low earth dyke separating fields
core of the earth (geology)
earth-shattering / breakthrough / remarkable and original work
(of an emperor) to pay homage to Heaven at Mount Tai and to Earth at Mount Liangfu
(idiom) during one's lifetime; while one is on this earth; in one's remaining years
(dialect) clod (of earth)
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  *埝* | 埝* | *埝
earth embankment used to hold back or retain water / dike around a paddy field
lit. as different as sky and earth (idiom) / fig. night and day difference / opposite extremes / a world of difference / a far cry from
Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you. / Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
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  *垏* | 垏* | *垏
(literary) earth ridge between fields / (used in place names)
the earth's axis
rammed earth / adobe house
lit. made by Heaven and arranged by Earth(idiom) / ideal / perfect / (of a match) made in heaven / to be made for one another
saline and alkaline (earth)
Vala (Middle-earth)
(old) name of a mountain in Gansu, where the setting sun was supposed to enter the earth
to fortify defenses and raze the fields (idiom); to leave nothing for the invader / scorched earth policy
lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom) / fig. to be at the end of one's rope / to be trapped in a hopeless situation
heaven and earth (idiom)
earth-shaking
large kitchen stove made from bricks or earth / (PRC) ordinary mess hall (lowest dining standard, ranked below 中灶 for mid-level cadres and 小灶 for the most privileged)
vanished from the face of the earth / all gone / nothing left
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  *楗* | 楗* | *楗
material (such as rocks, earth, bamboo etc) used to hastily repair a dike / (literary) door bar (vertical bar used to prevent the horizontal movement of a door bolt)

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