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  *地* | 地* | *地
-ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *地* | 地* | *地
earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:
HSK 1
HSK 1
place / site / location / venue / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
area / place / space / room / territory / CL: 處|处, 個|个, 塊|块
HSK 1
on the ground / on the floor
HSK 1
underground railway; subway / subway train
HSK 2
the earth
HSK 2
lawn / meadow / sod / turf / CL:
HSK 2
parts of the country other than where one is
HSK 2
subway station
HSK 2
local / regional / district (not necessarily formal administrative unit) / region / area / as suffix to city name, means prefecture or county (area administered by a prefecture-level city or, county-level city) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
in all parts of (a country) / various regions
HSK 3
local
HSK 3
position / status / place / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
address / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
region / regional (away from the central administration) / local
HSK 4
dry land (as opposed to the sea)
HSK 4
floor / ground / surface
HSK 4
land / soil / territory / CL: , 塊|块
HSK 4
underground / subterranean / covert
HSK 4
earthquake
HSK 5
base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc)
HSK 5
zone / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
topography / terrain / landform
HSK 5
inland / interior / hinterland
HSK 6
space / site / place / sports pitch
HSK 6
garden area
HSK 6
floor
HSK 6
place name / toponym
HSK 6
specially / for a special purpose
HSK 6
basement / cellar
HSK 6
local / this locality
HSK 6
everywhere / all over
HSK 6
to fall to the ground / to be set on the ground / to reach to the ground / to be born / (of a plane) to land
HSK 7-9
stage; degree (to which a situation has evolved) / a (usu. bad) situation / leeway
HSK 7-9
circumstances
HSK 7-9
source (of a product) / place of origin / manufacturing location
HSK 7-9
green area (e.g. urban park or garden)
HSK 7-9
hell / infernal / underworld / (Buddhism) Naraka
HSK 7-9
real estate
HSK 7-9
enduring while the world lasts (idiom) / eternal
HSK 7-9
destination (location)
HSK 7-9
tunnel / causeway
HSK 7-9
authentic / genuine / proper
HSK 7-9
geography
HSK 7-9
vacant land / open space
HSK 7-9
texture / background (texture) / grain / quality / character / disposition
HSK 7-9
construction site
HSK 7-9
carpet / rug
HSK 7-9
(in) the original place / the place where one currently is / place of origin / local (product)
HSK 7-9
margin / leeway
HSK 7-9
place of origin / birthplace / source
HSK 7-9
geology
HSK 7-9
groundwater
HSK 7-9
section / district
HSK 7-9
cemetery / graveyard
HSK 7-9
heaven and earth / world / scope / field of activity
HSK 7-9
secretly; inwardly; on the sly
HSK 7-9
lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper / right and unalterable / a matter of course
HSK 7-9
earth / mother earth
HSK 7-9
to split heaven and earth apart (idiom); refers to the Pangu 盤古|盘古 creation myth
HSK 7-9
locally / on the spot
HSK 7-9
sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head
HSK 7-9
to be hell-bent on; dead set on sth; unswerving
HSK 7-9
arable land / to plow land
HSK 7-9
area / district / region
HSK 7-9
anytime and anywhere
HSK 7-9
on-site
HSK 7-9
mainland China (PRC excluding Hong Kong and Macau, but including islands such as Hainan) / Japan (used in Taiwan during Japanese colonization)
land rent / land tax
mountainous region / hilly area / hilly country
polar region
(idiom) poles apart; as different as can be
air base
Tahiti, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia (Tw)
to distribute land
local autonomy / home rule
Hong Kong and Macao area
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi) / also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
real estate; landed estate; landed property
air plant (Bryophyllum pinnatum) / to put down roots
a world of ice and snow
location; site
Mediterranean Sea
(coll.) bald crown; male pattern baldness
al-Qaeda
roadside stall
camp
Aksu, prefecture in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
(Tw) local; native (from Taiwanese 在地, Tai-lo pr. [tsāi-tē])
highland / upland
county court / district court
land area
cadaster
land mine (CL:顆|颗) / (fig.) sore point; weak spot
district prosecutor's office
geographical location
to draw on local resources / using materials at hand
landmark

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