HSK 6 · Nature

耕地 gēngdì “arable land” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 耕地 means

  1. arable land
  2. to plough
  3. to plough land

How to say 耕地

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale耕gēng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale地dì4th tone, falling

耕地 in a sentence

  1. 我在耕地。

    Wǒ zài gēngdì.

    I’m ploughing the field.

    Sentence #5613618 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 耕地 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 耕 (gēng) with each of its parts in a different colour
耕gēngto plough
  • 耒plough · lěiMeaning part
  • 井well · jǐngSound part

耒 hints at the meaning (plough); 井 (jǐng) hints at the sound. Compare it with gēng.

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 耕地

耕 10 strokes · 地 6 strokes

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

Words related to 耕地

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

More words: Nature & Environment

风光fēngguāng · scenery丰收fēngshōu · bumper harvest腐烂fǔlàn · to rot干旱gānhàn · drought鸽子gēzi · pigeon灌溉guàngài · to irrigate光芒guāngmáng · rays of light洪水hóngshuǐ · flood

FAQs

耕地 (gēngdì) means “arable land” or “to plough”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gēngdì: gēng with a 1st 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. 耕地 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gengdi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 耕地 from the suggestions. Typing gengdi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
耕地 is an HSK 6 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.