HSK 6 · Society

阵地 zhèndì “position (military)” in Chinese

Traditional 陣地

What 阵地 means

  1. position (military)
  2. front
  3. field
  4. (military) position

How to say 阵地

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale阵zhèn4th 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

阵地 in a sentence

  1. 士兵们撤离了他们的阵地。

    Shìbīngmen chèlí le tāmen de zhèndì.

    The soldiers withdrew from their positions.

    Sentence #829718 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 阵地 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 阵 (zhèn) with each of its parts in a different colour
阵zhèndisposition of troops
  • 阝place
  • 车cart · chē
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 阵地

阵 6 strokes · 地 6 strokes

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

Words related to 阵地

Words with 阵

阵zhèn · measure word for short bursts (of rain阵容zhènróng · line-up (of a team or cast)

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

阵地 (zhèndì) means “position (military)” or “front”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhèndì: zhèn 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, 阵地 is written 陣地. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhendi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 阵地 from the suggestions. Typing zhendi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
阵地 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.