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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *地* | 地* | *地
-ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *地* | 地* | *地
earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:
HSK 1
the earth
HSK 2
HSK 1
parts of the country other than where one is
HSK 2
underground railway; subway / subway train
HSK 2
place / site / location / venue / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
address / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
land / soil / territory / CL: , 塊|块
HSK 4
region; area (informal or geographical term) / prefecture (in China's administrative system)
HSK 3
in all parts of (a country) / various regions
HSK 3
subway station
HSK 2
position / status / place / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
underground / subterranean / covert
HSK 4
on the ground / on the floor
HSK 1
local
HSK 3
specially / for a special purpose
HSK 6
floor / ground / surface
HSK 4
area / place / space / room / territory / CL: 處|处, 個|个, 塊|块
HSK 1
floor
HSK 6
inland / interior / hinterland
HSK 6
topography / terrain / landform
HSK 5
lawn / meadow / sod / turf / CL:
HSK 2
base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc)
HSK 5
zone / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
local / this locality
HSK 6
earthquake
HSK 5
region / regional (away from the central administration) / local
HSK 4
geography
HSK 7-9
geology
HSK 7-9
dry land (as opposed to the sea)
HSK 4
place name / toponym
HSK 6
(in) the original place / the place where one currently is / place of origin / local (product)
HSK 7-9
basement / cellar
HSK 6
place of origin / birthplace / source
HSK 7-9
everywhere / all over
HSK 6
land reform
to take up space / to occupy (space)
real estate
HSK 7-9
locally / on the spot
HSK 7-9
space / site / place / sports pitch
HSK 6
enduring while the world lasts (idiom) / eternal
HSK 7-9
source (of a product) / place of origin / manufacturing location
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 / mother earth
HSK 7-9
local god / genius loci
every part of the country
habitat
topographic map
seismic zone / earthquake belt
tunnel / causeway
HSK 7-9
authentic / genuine / proper
HSK 7-9
groundwater
HSK 7-9
vacant land / open space
HSK 7-9
(acknowledged) place / a role to play / niche
Freddie Mac, US mortgage company / formerly Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
bargaining position
tunnel; cave; burrow; dugout
a piece of land of 1.3 mu 畝|亩 / (fig.) one's turf
(idiom) barren land; desert
original source / place of origin / provenance
county court / district court
carpet / rug
HSK 7-9
to maintain the land (with rotation of crops or fertilizer)
garden area
HSK 6
secretly / in private / behind someone's back
prefecture-level city
world map
enclave; exclave (territory belonging to one jurisdiction but entirely surrounded by another)
ground floor / first floor
(idiom) world-shaking
HSK 7-9
Ground Zero
place / space
section / district
HSK 7-9
China Earthquake Administration (CEA) / State Seismological Bureau
Hindi (language)
mountain bike
Hong Kong and Macao area
secretly; inwardly; on the sly
HSK 7-9
to fall to the ground
dou dizhu ("fight the landlord") (card game)
thoroughgoing / authentic / 100% / to the core
roadside stall
mainland China (PRC excluding Hong Kong and Macau, but including islands such as Hainan) / Japan (used in Taiwan during Japanese colonization)
hell / infernal / underworld / (Buddhism) Naraka
HSK 7-9
circumstances
HSK 7-9
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (media term used esp. since 1997)
to be hell-bent on; dead set on sth; unswerving
HSK 7-9
somewhere / someplace / where
stranger / outsider
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
long-distance romance / long-distance relationship
to run a street stall
earth's gravity
geophysics
seismic zone / earthquake belt
to requisition land
earth (wire) / ground

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