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地

de, dì

earth

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 也 represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

也 sound component

也  Sound component

yě

  

also

Evolution

地 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
地 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
地 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
地 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

地  

de

earth; soil, ground; region; -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct

地  

dì

ground; field; place; land; CL:片[piàn]

Most common words with 地
Freq.
Word
Meaning

地

earth

地方

area

地区

local

地址

address

当地

local

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[l]ˤej-s

dijH

dì

earth, ground


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.4874% of movies

101st most common character in movies

21st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+5730

Shuowen

“地，元气初分，輕、清、陽為天；重、濁、陰為地。萬物所陳列也。从土，也聲。墬，籀文地从。”


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