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地理dì lǐ
geography
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 地理 | dìlǐ | |
| 1. n. geography | ||
| 地理 信息 工程 - geographic information engineering | ||
| 2. n. geographical features; topography | ||
| 3. n. (literary) address | ||
| 4. n. (chiefly dialectal Mandarin Hakka Min) fengshui | ||
| 5. n. (classical) terrestrial organization | ||
| 6. adj. (attributive) geographical | ||
| 地理 位置 - geographical location | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| geography | ||
| 1. 地理 | ||
| Components | ||
| 地 | dì | |
| 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 | ||
| 哋 | dì | |
| 1. (Cantonese, Pinghua) (Plural marker for pronouns.) | ||
| 我哋 - we; us | ||
| 2. (Cantonese) Only used in 爹哋, daddy, tr=- | ||
| 3. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 地 (-, t=(placed after a reduplicated adjective or stative verb to lessen its intensity.)) | ||
| 理 | lǐ | |
| 1. (obsolete) to cut and polish jade | ||
| 2. to put in order; to tidy up | ||
| 整理 (zhěnglǐ) - to tidy | ||
| 把 頭髮 理 一 理 (bǎ tóufà lǐ yī lǐ) - to get a haircut | ||
| 3. to manage; to run; to handle | ||
| 理財 (lǐcái) - to manage money matters | ||
| 4. (usually in negative) to pay attention to; to care about | ||
| 他們 不 理 我。 (Tāmen bù lǐ wǒ.) - They are ignoring me. | ||
| 佢 連 自己 個 仔 都 唔 理。 - He doesn't care about even his own son. | ||
| 5. (Cantonese) to concern oneself with; to interfere with | ||
| Synonyms: cmn:管 | ||
| 6. texture; grain (of wood) | ||
| 肌理 (jīlǐ) - skin texture | ||
| 7. reason; logic; truth; science | ||
| 真理 (zhēnlǐ) - truth | ||
| 講理 (jiǎnglǐ) - to be reasonable | ||
| 8. natural science | ||
| 理科 (lǐkē) - the sciences | ||
| 數理化 (shùlǐhuà) - mathematics, physics and chemistry | ||
| 9. (obsolete) envoy; jail-official; matchmaker | ||
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Pronunciation
dì lǐ
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