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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
lawn / meadow / sod / turf / CL:
HSK 2
parts of the country other than where one is
HSK 2
in all parts of (a country) / various regions
HSK 3
local
HSK 3
dry land (as opposed to the sea)
HSK 4
land / soil / territory / CL: , 塊|块
HSK 4
base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc)
HSK 5
space / site / place / sports pitch
HSK 6
specially / for a special purpose
HSK 6
local / this locality
HSK 6
everywhere / all over
HSK 6
garden area
HSK 6
inland / interior / hinterland
HSK 6
green area (e.g. urban park or garden)
HSK 7-9
source (of a product) / place of origin / manufacturing location
HSK 7-9
destination (location)
HSK 7-9
vacant land / open space
HSK 7-9
texture / background (texture) / grain / quality / character / disposition
HSK 7-9
(in) the original place / the place where one currently is / place of origin / local (product)
HSK 7-9
margin / leeway
HSK 7-9
(idiom) world-shaking
HSK 7-9
cemetery / graveyard
HSK 7-9
to fall to the ground / to be set on the ground / to reach to the ground / to be born / (of a plane) to land
HSK 7-9
heaven and earth / world / scope / field of activity
HSK 7-9
earth / mother earth
HSK 7-9
to split heaven and earth apart (idiom); refers to the Pangu 盤古|盘古 creation myth
HSK 7-9
locally / on the spot
HSK 7-9
sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head
HSK 7-9
circumstances
HSK 7-9
to be hell-bent on; dead set on sth; unswerving
HSK 7-9
arable land / to plow land
HSK 7-9
anytime and anywhere
HSK 7-9
construction site
HSK 7-9
on-site
HSK 7-9
place of origin / birthplace / source
HSK 7-9
Marathi language of west India
rushing to stake one's claim in new markets (idiom)
private plot allocated to an individual on a collective farm
air base
habitat
Tahiti, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia (Tw)
tourist destination; tourist attraction
(geography) basin / depression
Burundi (Tw)
location; site
al-Qaeda
highland / upland
air-to-surface (missile)
Xintiandi (shopping, eating and entertainment district of Shanghai)
dependency / possession / annexed territory
suddenly
earth (electric connection) / to earth
according to the location / everywhere / any place / from any location / from wherever you like
here / this place
original source / place of origin / provenance
different place / abroad
enclave; exclave (territory belonging to one jurisdiction but entirely surrounded by another)
Haiti
to fall to the ground
holy land (of a religion) / sacred place / shrine / holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc) / center of historic interest
daddy (loanword)
battlefield
local god / genius loci
military base
Sichuan basin
authentic / original
wetland
innate quality / natural disposition
to land / to touch the ground / also pr. [zhuo2 di4]
polar region
lit. eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth (idiom) / fig. arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive
station / encampment
danger spot / Jedi (in Star Wars)
blessed land; a place rich in beauty or natural resources etc / (term of respect) your place
to farm; to work the land
happy land / paradise
forbidden area / restricted area / (fig.) sth considered off-limits
once familiar places / former haunts
suddenly; unexpectedly
colony
mountainous region / hilly area / hilly country
lit. able to support both heaven and earth / of indomitable spirit (idiom)
to talk endlessly; to talk about everything under the sun
to mop the floor / (of a gown etc) to trail on the ground / full-length
lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom) / fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
to prepare the soil (agriculture)
to stand out among one's peers (idiom) / to excel
to die without a burial site / to die a pauper / a tragic end
delighted / with great joy / in high spirits
to put oneself in sb else's shoes
semifeudal and semicolonial (the official Marxist description of China in the late Qing and under the Guomindang)
brandy (loanword)
camp; campsite
somewhere / some place
It's all exaggeration, you don't need to take it seriously / a fuss about nothing / nothing to write home about
graveyard / cemetery
opinion / view / insight

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