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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) | ||
(zh-co, 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.) | ||
(zh-alt-inline, 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) (zh-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.)) | ||
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