HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Nature, Animals

草地 cǎodì “lawn” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 草地 means

  1. lawn
  2. grassland
  3. meadow
  4. sod
  5. turf

Measure word 片 piàn · 一片草地 yí piàn cǎodì

How to say 草地

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale草cǎo3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale地dì4th tone, falling

草地 in a sentence

  1. 我躺在草地上。

    Wǒ tǎng zài cǎodì shàng.

    I’m lying on the grass.

    Sentence #785072 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 不要走在草地上。

    Búyào zǒu zài cǎodì shàng.

    Keep off the grass.

    Sentence #766952 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 有些小孩在草地上玩。

    Yǒuxiē xiǎohái zài cǎodì shàng wán.

    Some children are playing on the grass.

    Sentence #1178903 from Tatoeba

How 草地 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 草 (cǎo) with each of its parts in a different colour
草cǎograss
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎoMeaning part
  • 早early · zǎoSound part

艹 hints at the meaning (grass); 早 (zǎo) hints at the sound. Compare it with cǎo.

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 草地

草 9 strokes · 地 6 strokes

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

Words related to 草地

Words with 草

草cǎo · grass起草qǐcǎo · to draft草率cǎoshuài · careless草案cǎo'àn · draft (of a law or plan)

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地点dìdiǎn · place地址dìzhǐ · address地球dìqiú · the earth当地dāngdì · local地区dìqū · region

More words: Nature, Animals & Weather

风fēng · wind冰bīng · ice河hé · river羊yáng · sheep开花kāihuā · to bloom大熊猫dàxióngmāo · giant panda地球dìqiú · the earth海洋hǎiyáng · ocean

FAQs

草地 (cǎodì) means “lawn” or “grassland”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it cǎodì: cǎo with a 3rd 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.
Yes. 草地 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 片 (piàn). For example, one lawn is 一片草地 (yí piàn cǎodì).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type caodi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 草地 from the suggestions. Typing caodi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
草地 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older 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.