earth / ground / field / place / land / CL: 片

the earth / CL: 個｜个

life (one's time on earth)

the human world / the earth

plain / simple / guileless / down-to-earth / sincere and honest

equator (of the earth or a celestial body) / celestial equator

earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音

shell / carapace / crust (earth's crust etc) / also pr. [ke2]

yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe

five constant virtues of Confucianism, namely: benevolence 仁, righteousness 義｜义, propriety 禮｜礼, wisdom 智 and fidelity 信 / five cardinal relationships of Confucianism (between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, brothers, friends) / five phases of Chinese philosophy: water 水, fire 火, wood 木, metal 金, earth 土

earth; soil; mud; clay

one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing earth / female principle / ☷ / ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest)

heaven and earth / world / scope / field of activity

to bank up with earth / to cultivate (lit. or fig.) / to train (people)

earth (electric connection) / to earth

expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea

(coll.) (emphasizing a rhetorical question) what / what kind / why on earth

on earth

beyond the earth / outer space

cubic meter of earth (unit of measurement) / excavated soil / earthwork (abbr. for 土方工程) / (TCM) folk remedy

dust / dirt / earth

to earth up

solid earth

atmosphere (surrounding the earth) / imposing; impressive; stylish

basket for removing earth / spade

the whole earth / the universe

(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

to tamp / to ram (earth etc)

the sky spins, the earth goes round (idiom); giddy with one's head spinning / fig. huge changes in the world

soil / earth

not to know the immensity of heaven and earth / an exaggerated opinion of one's own abilities

the Earth's crust

the earth's ocean / the hydrosphere (geology)

earth-shattering / breakthrough / remarkable and original work

(dialect) clod (of earth)

lit. to descend to earth (of an immortal) / to be born

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

lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering / omnipresent / of universal importance

hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive / fig. having an uncomfortable time

god of the earth

state / country / the Gods of earth and grain

(of an emperor) to pay homage to Heaven at Mount Tai and to Earth at Mount Liangfu

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

lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering / omnipresent / of universal importance

clay ox / mound of earth on a dike (ready for emergency repairs)

lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom) / fig. to change the course of events / to turn things around

Vala (Middle-earth)

lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess

lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance

earth embankment used to hold back or retain water / dike around a paddy field

a basket or pan used for earth, manure etc

(literary) earth ridge between fields / (used in place names)

burial (in earth)

plowed earth / soil moisture / furrow

lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper / right and unalterable / a matter of course

basket for carrying earth

lit. as different as sky and earth (idiom) / fig. night and day difference / opposite extremes / a world of difference / a far cry from

to obliterate completely / to vanish from the face of 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

five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水

lit. able to support both heaven and earth / of indomitable spirit (idiom)

Kṣitigarbha, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva

world / earth

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)

(bound form) may; can / (bound form) to endure; to bear / (in 堪輿｜堪舆) heaven (contrasted with earth 輿｜舆)

red earth used for paints

a clod of earth / land

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)

the surface (of the earth)

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

dust / to dust / a bank of earth / to bring together / to dig / also pr. [fen4]

the earth's axis

lithosphere (in geology, the rigid crust of the earth)

domain / territory under one's control / foundation of a building / base of operations / crust of earth

core of the earth (geology)

earth God

to cup one's hands in salute / to surround / to arch / to dig earth with the snout / arched

the earth quaked, the mountains shook (idiom); a tremendous battle

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)

lit. made by Heaven and arranged by Earth(idiom) / ideal / perfect / (of a match) made in heaven / to be made for one another

earth (wire) / ground

earth-moving machine / mechanical digger

Arirang, famous Korean song of love and tragic separation, based on folk tale from Georyo dynasty / Arirang, series of Korean earth observation space satellites

heaven and earth (idiom)

an earth-shaking noise (idiom)

neither fish nor fowl / resembling nothing on earth

to shake heaven and earth (idiom)

to heap earth (to close a tomb) / a mound (covering a tomb)

sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head

to worship heaven and earth / ritual kneeling by bride and groom in a old-fashioned wedding ceremony / also called 拜堂

Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you. / Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

vanished from the face of the earth / all gone / nothing left

sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head

the earth's core / geocentric

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)

saline and alkaline (earth)

earth's gravity

earth-shattering

heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster / fig. violent revolution / major social upheaval