地

Translingual

Stroke order
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Han character

地 (radical 32 土+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 土心木 (GPD), four-corner 44112, composition ⿰土也)

  1. earth
  2. soil, ground
  3. region

References

  • KangXi: page 224, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4890
  • Dae Jaweon: page 456, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 420, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+5730
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Cantonese

Hanzi

地 (jyutping dei6, Yale dei6)

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Japanese

Kanji

地 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. earth; ground

Readings

Compounds

Noun

地 (hiragana ち, romaji chi)

  1. earth; land; ground
  2. a place; a region; a piece of land
  3. territory; dominion
  4. (of a crate, etc) the bottom

地 (hiragana じ, romaji ji, historical hiragana ぢ)

  1. earth; dirt
  2. (game of Go) territory

Suffix

地 (hiragana ち, romaji -chi)

  1. place, area
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Korean

Hanja

地
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 지 (revised: ji, McCune-Reischauer: chi)
  • Name (hangeul): 땅 (revised: ttang, McCune-Reischauer: ttang, Yale: ttang)
  1. (땅 지, ttang-): earth, land, ground
  2. (지위 지, jiwi-): status, rank

Compounds

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Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
地

Pronunciation

Noun

地 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin dì)

  1. the earth
  2. land
    地是空虛混沌。淵面黑暗。神的靈運行在水面上。
    地是空虚混沌。渊面黑暗。神的灵运行在水面上。
    Dì shì kōngxū hùndùn. Yuānmiàn hēi'àn. Shén de líng yùnxíng zài shuǐmiàn shang.
    The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

References

Hanzi

地 (pinyin dì (di4), de (de5), Wade-Giles ti4)

Compounds

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Middle Chinese

Han character

地 (*dhì)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

地 (POJ (Taiwanese) tè, tuē, tī)

References

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Vietnamese

Han character

地 (địa, rịa)

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