地
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earth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]
6 strokes
Dict coverage rank #18 U+5730
How 地 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
土 (semantic, “earth”) + 也 (phonetic, yě)
How to remember it
ground · Heisig RSH #507
土 soil + scorpion
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 也
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 也 (yě) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 也 sound component | yě | also, too |
| 池 | chí | pool, pond; moat; cistern |
| 驰 | chí | speed, haste; to run, to gallop |
| 弛 | chí | to loosen, to relax; to unstring a bow |
| 迤 | yǐ | winding, meandering |
| 㐌 | tā | a tribe of savages in South China |
| 酏 | yí | millet wine |
Words containing 地
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大地 | dà dì | earth; mother earth |
| 地区 | dì qū | region; area (informal or geographical term); prefecture (in China's administrative system… |
| 县地 | xiàn dì | county seat; county town |
| 山地 | shān dì | mountainous region; hilly area; hilly country |
| 地市 | dì shì | prefecture-level administrative jurisdiction (including prefecture-level cities, autonomou… |
| 地头 | dì tóu | place; locality; edge of a field; lower margin of a page |
| 地心 | dì xīn | the center of the Earth; (attributive) geocentric; the Earth's interior |
| 心地 | xīn dì | character |
| 地区性 | dì qū xìng | regional; local |
| 地儿 | dì r | place; space |
| 天地 | tiān dì | heaven and earth; world; scope; field of activity |
| 地中海 | Dì zhōng Hǎi | Mediterranean Sea |
| 地中海 | dì zhōng hǎi | (coll.) bald crown; bald spot on the crown of the head |
| 性地 | xìng dì | innate quality; natural disposition |
| 马拉地 | Mǎ lā dì | Marathi language of west India |
| 出人头地 | chū rén tóu dì | to stand out among one's peers (idiom); to excel |
| 海地 | Hǎi dì | Haiti |
| 地动 | dì dòng | earthquake (old term) |
| 安地斯 | Ān dì sī | the Andes mountains |
| 地面水 | dì miàn shuǐ | surface water |