Sentence #397551 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 地 is built
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地de-ly
土earth · tǔMeaning part
也also · yěSound part
土 hints at the meaning (earth); 也 (yě) hints at the sound. Compare it with de.
Memory aidEarth 土 gives the meaning: the ground, a place.
How to write 地
地 6 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 地 (de). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
地 (de) means “particle used after a description, before a verb (like -ly)”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it de: de with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 地 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type de with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 地 from the suggestions. Typing de into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
Yes. Read dì, 地 means “earth”. That reading has its own page. Read de, it means “particle used after a description, before a verb (like -ly)”.
地 is an HSK 3 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.
地deneutral tone, light and short
