HSK 5 · Nature

陆地 lùdì “dry land (as opposed to the sea)” in Chinese

Traditional 陸地

What 陆地 means

  1. dry land (as opposed to the sea)

How to say 陆地

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale陆lù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale地dì4th tone, falling

陆地 in a sentence

  1. 地球是由海洋和陆地组成的。

    Dìqiú shì yóu hǎiyáng hé lùdì zǔchéng de.

    The earth is made up of sea and land.

    Sentence #610538 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 据说鲸鱼以前是在陆地上生活的。

    Jùshuō jīngyú yǐqián shì zài lùdì shàng shēnghuó de.

    Whales are said to have once lived on land.

    Sentence #391461 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 地球的表面约有三分之一是陆地。

    Dìqiú de biǎomiàn yuē yǒu sān fēn zhī yī shì lùdì.

    About a third of the earth’s surface is land.

    Sentence #337229 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 陆地 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 陆 (lù) with each of its parts in a different colour
陆lùland
  • 阝placeMeaning part
  • 击to strike · jīSound part

阝 hints at the meaning (place); 击 (jī) hints at the sound. Compare it with lù.

The character 地 (dì) with each of its parts in a different colour
地dìearth
  • 土earth · tǔMeaning part
  • 也also · yěSound part

土 hints at the meaning (earth); 也 (yě) hints at the sound. Compare it with dì.

Memory aidEarth 土 gives the meaning: the ground, a place.

How to write 陆地

陆 7 strokes · 地 6 strokes

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陆地 (lùdì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 陆地 (lùdì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 陆地

Words with 陆

陆续lùxù · in turn登陆dēnglù · to land

Words with 地

地dì · earth地方dìfang · place地铁dìtiě · subway地图dìtú · map外地wàidì · another part of the country草地cǎodì · lawn地点dìdiǎn · place地址dìzhǐ · address地球dìqiú · the earth当地dāngdì · local

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FAQs

陆地 (lùdì) means “dry land (as opposed to the sea)”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it lùdì: lù with a 4th tone, then dì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 陆地 is written 陸地. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ludi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 陆地 from the suggestions. Typing ludi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
陆地 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.