| | earth / ground / field / place / land / CL: 片 | HSK 1 |
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| | the earth | HSK 2 |
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| | life (one's time on earth) | HSK 3 |
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| | earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 | HSK 3 |
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| | the human world / the earth | HSK 5 |
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| | to cup one's hands in salute / to surround / to arch / to dig earth with the snout / arched | HSK 7-9 |
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| | atmosphere (surrounding the earth) / imposing; impressive; stylish | HSK 7-9 |
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| | earth; soil; mud; clay | HSK 7-9 |
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| | plain / simple / guileless / down-to-earth / sincere and honest | HSK 7-9 |
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| | heaven and earth / world / scope / field of activity | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper / right and unalterable / a matter of course | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to split heaven and earth apart (idiom); refers to the Pangu 盤古|盘古 creation myth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head | HSK 7-9 |
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| | earth / mother earth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | cubic meter of earth (unit of measurement) / excavated soil / earthwork (abbr. for 土方工程) / (TCM) folk remedy | |
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| | solid earth | |
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| | basket for removing earth / spade | |
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| | (literary) chassis of a carriage (contrasted with the canopy 堪) / (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 | |
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| | dust / dirt / earth | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | to bank up with earth / to cultivate (lit. or fig.) / to train (people) | |
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| | 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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| | (of an emperor) to pay homage to Heaven at Mount Tai and to Earth at Mount Liangfu | |
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| | a genius (literally, an immortal who has been banished from heaven to live on earth), an epithet for exceptional individuals such as the Tang poet Li Bai 李白 / (fig.) banished official | |
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| | lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom) / fig. to change the course of events / to turn things around | |
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| | the whole earth / the universe | |
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| | yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe | |
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| | (bound form) may; can / (bound form) to endure; to bear / (in 堪輿|堪舆) heaven (contrasted with earth 輿|舆) | |
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| | five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水 | |
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| | one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing earth / female principle / ☷ / ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest) | |
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| | Vala (Middle-earth) | |
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| | earth (electric connection) / to earth | |
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| | beyond the earth / outer space | |
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| | world / earth | |
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| | red earth used for paints | |
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| | god of the earth | |
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| | on earth | |
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| | the earth's axis | |
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| | domain / territory under one's control / foundation of a building / base of operations / crust of earth | |
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| | Kṣitigarbha, 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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| | earth God | |
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| | expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea | |
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| | lit. eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth (idiom) / fig. arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive | |
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| | the earth quaked, the mountains shook (idiom); a tremendous battle | |
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| | dust / to dust / a bank of earth / to bring together / to dig / also pr. [fen4] | |
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| | the surface (of the earth) | |
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| | lit. to descend to earth (of an immortal) / to be born | |
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| | (literary) earth ridge between fields / (used in place names) | |
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| | lit. able to support both heaven and earth / of indomitable spirit (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) during one's lifetime; while one is on this earth; in one's remaining years | |
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| | state / country / the Gods of earth and grain | |
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| | to obliterate completely / to vanish from the face of the earth | |
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| | not to know the immensity of heaven and earth / an exaggerated opinion of one's own abilities | |
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| | the sky spins, the earth goes round (idiom); giddy with one's head spinning / fig. huge changes in the world | |
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| | a clod of earth / land | |
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| | to tamp / to ram (earth etc) | |
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| | earth (wire) / ground | |
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| | lit. the difference between heaven and earth (idiom) / fig. night and day difference; a world of difference; a far cry (from) | |
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| | 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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| | (coll.) (emphasizing a rhetorical question) what / what kind / why on earth | |
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| | an earth-shaking noise (idiom) | |
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| | heaven and earth / yin and yang | |
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| | lit. made by Heaven and arranged by Earth(idiom) / ideal / perfect / (of a match) made in heaven / to be made for one another | |
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| | earth-shattering / breakthrough / remarkable and original work | |
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| | neither fish nor fowl / resembling nothing on earth | |
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| | hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive / fig. having an uncomfortable time | |
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| | to fortify defenses and raze the fields (idiom); to leave nothing for the invader / scorched earth policy | |
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| | the Earth's crust | |
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| | to worship heaven and earth / ritual kneeling by bride and groom in a old-fashioned wedding ceremony / also called 拜堂 | |
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| | to shake heaven and earth (idiom) | |
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| | earth-shaking | |
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| | village shrine to the earth god | |
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| | rare earth element (chemistry) | |
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| | saline and alkaline (earth) | |
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| | alkaline earth (i.e. beryllium Be 鈹|铍, magnesium Mg 鎂|镁, calcium Ca 鈣|钙, strontium Sr 鍶|锶, barium Ba 鋇|钡 and radium Ra 鐳|镭) | |
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| | 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) | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | low Earth orbit (LEO) | |
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| | Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth / Shangri-La, a county-level city in Yunnan that takes its name from the fictional land of the 1933 novel | |
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| | Arirang, famous Korean song of love and tragic separation, based on folk tale from Georyo dynasty / Arirang, series of Korean earth observation space satellites | |
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| | (old) name of a mountain in Gansu, where the setting sun was supposed to enter the earth | |
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| | vanished from the face of the earth / all gone / nothing left | |
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| | 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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| | burial (in earth) | |
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| | lithosphere (in geology, the rigid crust of the earth) | |
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| | sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head | |
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| | hard earth | |
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| | strip of high ground / low earth dyke separating fields | |
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| | equator (of the earth or a celestial body) / celestial equator | |
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| | the earth's core / geocentric | |
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| | (astronomy) the moon's path around the earth / legitimate, lawful activities (contrasted with 黑道) / law-abiding citizenry | |
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| | as different as heaven and earth (idiom) / worlds apart | |
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| | lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance | |
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| | lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering / omnipresent / of universal importance | |
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| | ritual kneeling to heaven and earth by bride and groom in a old-fashioned wedding ceremony / same as 拜天地 | |
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| | lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess | |
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| | a basket or pan used for earth, manure etc | |
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| | earth's gravity | |
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| | heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster / fig. violent revolution / major social upheaval | |
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| | lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering / a radical change | |
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