The Chinese word for ground is
地
dì
Chinese Definition
| ground | |
| 1. 名词. 地 | |
| 2. 名词. 地面 |
Translations for ground and their definitions
| 地 | |
| 1. earth | |
| 天地 - heaven and earth | |
| 2. ground; floor | |
| 水泥 地 - concrete floor | |
| 這 匹 馬 倒 在 地上shang。 - The horse collapsed to the ground. | |
| 銀包 跌 咗 落 地。 - The wallet fell on the ground. | |
| 趴 喺 地dei6-2 - to lie on the floor on one's stomach | |
| 3. land; field | |
| 低地 - lowland | |
| 呢nei1 塊 地 - this plot of land | |
| 4. distance; separation | |
| 車站 離 這 三 里 地。 - The bus stop is three miles away. | |
| 5. farmland; field | |
| 田間 地頭 - farmland | |
| 下地 幹活 - to farm | |
| 6. (only in compounds) area; region | |
| 本地 - local | |
| 殖民地 - colony | |
| 7. place; locality | |
| 地處chǔ - located in | |
| 目的地 - destination | |
| 分居 兩 地 - to live apart in two different places | |
| 8. status; situation; position | |
| 不敗之地 - invincible position | |
| 設身處chǔ地 - put oneself in somebody else’s position | |
| 9. (only in compounds) state of mind | |
| 心地 - mind | |
| 見地 - perspective, opinion | |
| 10. place; room; space | |
| 家 裡 沒 地兒r 了 - There is no room in my home (for that). | |
| 11. background (behind a text or figure) | |
| 白地黑字 - black characters on a white background - | |
| 12. (only in compounds) Short for 地球, Earth | |
| 地 日 距離 - Earth–Sun distance | |
| 類 地 行星 - terrestrial planet | |
| 13. (Hakka) grave; tomb | |
| ^蛤gé地 站 - Gedi station (蛤地 means "frog-shaped tomb") | |
| 14. (Mainland China) prefecture | |
| 地級市 - prefecture-level city | |
| 15. (chiefly Mandarin) (Particle indicating the preceding word is used as an adverb.) | |
| (Alternative form 的, 底 obsolete, c=1) | |
| 很 快 地de - very quickly | |
| 一個 一 歲 模樣 的 孩子zi 向 我們 蹣跚 地de 走來。 - A roughly one-year-old child came staggering towards us. | |
| 佢 偷偷 地dei6-2 走 咗 喇。 - He secretly left. | |
| 你 靜靜zing6-2 地dei6-2 坐 喺度 喇 吓。 - Sit here quietly, OK? | |
| 16. (Cantonese) (Placed after a reduplicated adjective or stative verb to lessen its intensity.) | |
| 紅 紅hung4-2 地dei6-2 - kind of red | |
| 薄 薄bok6-2 地dei6-2 - kind of thin | |
| 驚 驚 地dei6-2 - to be kind of scared | |
| 矮 矮 地dei6-2 - kind of short | |
| 17. =====Usage notes===== | |
| 18. (Hokkien, Teochew) Alternative form of 塊 (-, t=place) | |
| 19. (Taiwanese Hokkien) Alternative form of 塊 (-, t=home) | |
| 20. Variant of 哋 |
| 土 | |
| 1. earth; soil | |
| 土堆 - mound; hillock | |
| 這兒r 的 土 夠 肥 的。 - The soil here is quite fertile. | |
| 2. (dialectal) dust | |
| 3. land | |
| 國土 - territory | |
| 寸土不讓 - to not give up a single inch of one's territory | |
| 4. crude opium | |
| 煙土 - crude opium | |
| 5. hometown; native place | |
| 故土 - native land; native place | |
| 6. local; native; indigenous | |
| 土著 - aboriginal | |
| 土話 - local dialect | |
| 7. rustic; unsophisticated; uncouth; vulgar; tasteless; uncultured | |
| 我 覺得 東北話 實在 太 土 了。 - I think that Northeastern Mandarin is too rustic. | |
| 8. indigenous; traditional and used by the common people | |
| 土法 - traditional method used by the common people; indigenous method | |
| 土 槍 - gun manufactured using indigenous methods | |
| 9. the Tu ethnic group; Monguor people; White Mongol | |
| 10. Short for 土耳其, Turkey | |
| ^俄 ^土 戰爭 - Russo-Turkish War | |
| 11. Only used in 土門 (tr=Túmén) | |
| 12. Simplified form of 士 |
| 土壤 | |
| 1. n. soil | |
| 土壤 水分fèn - soil moisture | |
| 盆栽 土壤 - potting soil; potting mix |
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