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陆地lù dì
land
Definitions
| Chinese > English | |
| 陆地 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 陸地 | |
| 陸地 | lùdì |
| 1. n. (geography) dry land; land; landmass | |
| English > Chinese | |
| land | |
| 1. 名词. 地，土地 | |
| Components | |
| 陆 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 陸 | |
| 2. (cln, zh, numeral symbols, numerals) | |
| 陸 | lù |
| 1. land; continent; mainland | |
| 登陸 - to land; to go ashore | |
| 陸路 - land route | |
| 2. land route; surface transport | |
| 3. Short for 中國大陸, mainland China | |
| 陸生 - student from mainland China studying in Taiwan | |
| 4. Short for 陸軍, army | |
| Lu | |
| 陸 ^游 - Lu You (Southern Song dynasty poet) | |
| 5. (financial) Alternative form of 六 (six) | |
| 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.)) | |
Pronunciation
lù dì
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