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地

地 U+5730, 地
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5730
← 圯
[U+572F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 圱 →
[U+5731]

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TranslingualEdit

Stroke order
 
Stroke order
 

Han characterEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

  • 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

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
 地
variant forms 埊

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 地
Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Shizhoupian script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
           
Characters in the same phonetic series (也) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
他 *l̥ʰaːl
拖 *l̥ʰaːl, *l̥ʰaːls
駞 *l'aːl
池 *l'aːl, *l'al
灺 *ljalʔ
鍦 *ɦljaːl, *hljal, *hljals
虵 *ɦljal, *laːlʔ, *lal
也 *laːlʔ
忚 *hleːl
髢 *l'eːls
杝 *l̥ʰalʔ, *l'alʔ, *lal
肔 *l̥ʰalʔ, *lalʔ
馳 *l'al
阤 *l'alʔ, *hljalʔ
施 *hljal, *hljals
絁 *hljal
葹 *hljal
弛 *hljalʔ
箷 *lal
衪 *lel, *lalʔ
暆 *lel
迆 *lal, *lalʔ
酏 *lal, *lalʔ
匜 *lal, *lalʔ
迤 *lalʔ
扡 *lalʔ
崺 *lalʔ
貤 *lals, *ɦljels, *lels
地 *l'els

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'els): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 也 (OC *laːlʔ).

Etymology 1Edit

  This entry lacks etymological information. If you are familiar with the origin of this term, please add it to the page per etymology instructions. You can also discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.

PronunciationEdit

Note: deng6 - usually written as 埞.
Note:
  • Xiamen, Quanzhou:
    • tōe - vernacular;
    • tē - literary.
  • Zhangzhou, Taiwan:
    • tē/tōe/tǒe/tēre - literary.
  • Other readings:
    • tī - vernacular (may be considered literary, only used in 土地公);
    • tè/tèr - vernacular (limited, e.g. 到地, 鎮地, 掃地, possibly substitute for 帶).
  • (Teochew)
    • Note:
  • Wu
  • Xiang
    • Dialectal data▼
    Variety Location 地
    Mandarin Beijing /ti⁵¹/
    Harbin /ti⁵³/
    Tianjin /ti⁵³/
    Jinan /ti²¹/
    Qingdao /ti⁴²/
    Zhengzhou /ti³¹²/
    Xi'an /ti⁴⁴/
    Xining /t͡sz̩²¹³/
    Yinchuan /ti¹³/
    Lanzhou /ti¹³/
    Ürümqi /ti²¹³/
    Wuhan /ti³⁵/
    Chengdu /ti¹³/
    Guiyang /ti²¹³/
    Kunming /ti²¹²/
    Nanjing /ti⁴⁴/
    Hefei /t͡sz̩⁵³/
    Jin Taiyuan /ti⁴⁵/
    Pingyao /ti³⁵/
    Hohhot /ti⁵⁵/
    Wu Shanghai /di²³/
    Suzhou /di³¹/
    Hangzhou /di¹³/
    Wenzhou /dei²²/
    Hui Shexian /tʰi²²/
    Tunxi /tʰi¹¹/
    Xiang Changsha /ti⁵⁵/
    /ti¹¹/
    Xiangtan /di²¹/
    Gan Nanchang /tʰi²¹/
    Hakka Meixian /tʰi⁵³/
    Taoyuan /tʰi⁵⁵/
    Cantonese Guangzhou /tei²²/
    Nanning /ti²²/
    Hong Kong /tei²²/
    Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ti²²/
    /te²²/ ～理
    /tue²²/ 土～
    Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tɛi²⁴²/
    Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ti⁴⁴/
    Shantou (Min Nan) /ti³¹/
    Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔdi³⁵/
    /ʔdi³³/
    /ʔdi²³/
    Rime
    Character 地
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 定 (7)
    Final (韻) 脂 (15)
    Tone (調) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) III
    Fanqie 徒四切
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/diɪH/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/diH/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/djɪH/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/diH/
    Li
    Rong         		/diH/
    Wang
    Li         		/diH/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/dʱiH/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		dì
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 地
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		dì
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ dijH ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*[l]ˁej-s/
    English earth, ground

    Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

    * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
    * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
    * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
    * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

    * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character 地
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 14808
    Phonetic
    component         		也
    Rime
    group         		歌
    Rime
    subdivision         		2
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		地
    Old
    Chinese         		/*l'els/

    DefinitionsEdit

    地

    1. earth; ground
    2. land; field (Classifier: 塊／块 c; 笪 c)
    3. distance; separation
    4. farmland; field
    5. (only in compounds) place; location
    6. (only in compounds) status; situation
      • 心地  ―  xīndì  ―  mind
      • 見地 / 见地  ―  jiàndì  ―  perspective, opinion
    7. (only in compounds) Short for 地球 (dìqiú, “Earth”).

    CompoundsEdit

    Derived terms from 地

    Etymology 2Edit

    Possibly the same word as 的, the possessive marker (Wang, 1958), but scholars like Lü (1943) and Yuan et al. (1996) are hesitant about this etymology.

    Alternatively, Ōta (2003) proposes that it is a grammaticalization of etymology 1. The construction ADJ + 地 would have semantically developed as follows: "a ADJ place" → "in a ADJ place" → "in a ADJ manner".

    PronunciationEdit

    Note: di is used in poetry, songs.
    Note:
    • dei6 - literary;
    • dei6-2 - vernacular, only used after reduplicated words.
  • Min Nan

    • DefinitionsEdit

    地 (chiefly Mandarin)

    1. Particle indicating the word preceding it is used as an adverb.
      很快地  ―  hěn kuài de  ―  very quickly
      佢偷偷地走咗喇。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
      Keoi5 tau1 tau1 dei6-2 zau2 zo2 laa3. [Jyutping]
      He secretly left.
      alt. forms: 的, 底 obsolete
    Usage notesEdit
    • The use of this particle is always optional after polysyllabic adverbs.
      非常短  ―  fēicháng duǎn  ―  very short
      非常地短  ―  fēicháng de duǎn  ―  very short
    • On the contrary, monosyllabic adverbs are compulsorily used with or without 地.
      很漂亮  ―  hěn piàoliang  ―  very beautiful
      (where *很地漂亮 is unacceptable)
      倏地不見 / 倏地不见  ―  shū de bùjiàn  ―  to disappear suddenly
      (where *倏不見 is unacceptable in Modern Standard Chinese)
    • However, there is an exception:
      猛回頭 / 猛回头  ―  měng huítóu  ―  to turn the head back suddenly
      猛地回頭 / 猛地回头  ―  měng de huítóu  ―  to turn the head back suddenly

    CompoundsEdit

    Derived terms from 地

    Etymology 3Edit

      This entry lacks etymological information. If you are familiar with the origin of this term, please add it to the page per etymology instructions. You can also discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
    Particularly: “related to etymology 2?”

    PronunciationEdit

    DefinitionsEdit

    地

    1. (Cantonese) Placed after a reduplicated adjective or stative verb to lessen its intensity.
      紅紅地 / 红红地 [Cantonese]  ―  hung4 hung4-2 dei6-2 [Jyutping]  ―  kind of red
      薄薄地 [Cantonese]  ―  bok6 bok6-2 dei6-2 [Jyutping]  ―  kind of thin
      驚驚地 / 惊惊地 [Cantonese]  ―  geng1 geng1 dei6-2 [Jyutping]  ―  to be kind of scared
      矮矮地 [Cantonese]  ―  ai2 ai2 dei6-2 [Jyutping]  ―  kind of short
    Usage notesEdit
    • This suffix is accompanied by a tone change in the reduplicated word, where the second occurrence is changed to the second tone (unless its original tone is the first or second tone), as seen in the examples above.

    CompoundsEdit

    Derived terms from 地

    Etymology 4Edit

    For pronunciation and definitions of 地 – see 哋 (“Cantonese plurality marker”).
    (This character, 地, is a variant form of 哋.)

    JapaneseEdit

    KanjiEdit

    地

    (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    1. earth; ground

    ReadingsEdit

    CompoundsEdit

    Etymology 1Edit

    Kanji in this term
    地
    じ
    Grade: 2
    on’yomi

    From Middle Chinese 地 (dijH). The goon reading, so likely the initial borrowing. Compare modern Mandarin dì.

    PronunciationEdit

    NounEdit

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

    1. earth, dirt
    2. fabric, cloth
      • 1906, 夏目漱石 (Natsume Sōseki), 坊っちゃん (Botchan) [Botchan]‎[1]:
        :
        いくらか薄 (うす)い地 (じ)には相 (そう)違 (い)なくっても暑 (あつ)いには極 (きま)ってる。
        Ikura ka usui ji ni wa sōi nakutte mo atsui ni wa kimatteru.
        However thin the cloth, flannel is flannel and must have been pretty warm at that time of the year.
    3. (game of Go) territory

    Etymology 2Edit

    Kanji in this term
    地
    ち
    Grade: 2
    on’yomi

    From Middle Chinese 地 (dijH). The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing. The devoicing of the initial consonant might indicate a dialectal source. Compare modern Hakka thi, Min Nan tī.

    PronunciationEdit

    NounEdit

    地 (hiragana ち, rōmaji chi)

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

    SuffixEdit

    地 (hiragana ち, rōmaji -chi)

    1. place, area

    Etymology 3Edit

    Kanji in this term
    地
    つち
    Grade: 2
    kun’yomi

    From Old Japanese.[2][1]

    PronunciationEdit

    Alternative formsEdit

    • 土 (more common for this reading)

    NounEdit

    地 (hiragana つち, rōmaji tsuchi)

    1. earth, dirt, mud, soil
    2. the ground
    3. the earth (as opposed to the heavens)
    4. the ground or bottom of something (as of a price range)

    ReferencesEdit

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
    2. ^ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan

    KoreanEdit

    HanjaEdit

    地 (eumhun 땅 지 (ttang ji))

    1. (땅 지, ttang-): earth, land, ground
    2. (지위 지, jiwi-): status, rank

    CompoundsEdit

    VietnameseEdit

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