| | earth / ground / field / place / land / CL: 片 | HSK 1 |
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| | the earth | HSK 2 |
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| | life (one's time on earth) | HSK 3 |
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| | earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音 | HSK 3 |
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| | the human world / the earth | HSK 5 |
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| | heaven and earth / world / scope / field of activity | HSK 7-9 |
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| | atmosphere (surrounding the earth) / imposing; impressive; stylish | HSK 7-9 |
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| | earth / mother earth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to cup one's hands in salute / to surround / to arch / to dig earth with the snout / arched | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to split heaven and earth apart (idiom); refers to the Pangu 盤古|盘古 creation myth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | earth; soil; mud; clay | HSK 7-9 |
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| | sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head | HSK 7-9 |
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| | plain / simple / guileless / down-to-earth / sincere and honest | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper / right and unalterable / a matter of course | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism) / the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放|大鸣大放, 大辯論|大辩论, 大字報|大字报 (PRC) | |
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| | one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing earth / female principle / ☷ / ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest) | |
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| | earth (electric connection) / to earth | |
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| | five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水 | |
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| | lit. eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth (idiom) / fig. arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive | |
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| | state / country / the Gods of earth and grain | |
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| | to earth up | |
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| | the surface (of the earth) | |
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| | world / earth | |
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| | (bound form) may; can / (bound form) to endure; to bear / (in 堪輿|堪舆) heaven (contrasted with earth 輿|舆) | |
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| | to tamp / to ram (earth etc) | |
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| | on earth | |
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| | sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head | |
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| | (loanword from Mongolian) road or boundary marker made of piled up earth or stones, formerly worshipped as the dwelling place of spirits | |
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| | lit. to go up to heaven or down to Hades (idiom) / fig. to go to great lengths / to search heaven and earth | |
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| | (geology) (the earth's) mantle | |
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| | to bank up with earth / to cultivate (lit. or fig.) / to train (people) | |
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| | (bound form) soil; earth / (literary) the earth (contrasted with heaven 天) | |
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| | saline and alkaline (earth) | |
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| | dust / dirt / earth | |
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| | domain / territory under one's control / foundation of a building / base of operations / crust of earth | |
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| | (literary) chassis of a carriage (contrasted with the canopy 堪) / (literary) (fig.) the earth (while the carriage canopy is a metaphor for heaven); land; territory / (literary) carriage / (literary) sedan chair; palanquin / (bound form) the multitudes; the people; the public | |
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| | earth (wire) / ground | |
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| | the ends of the earth / separated worlds apart | |
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| | equator (of the earth or a celestial body) / celestial equator | |
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| | frozen earth / permafrost / tundra | |
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| | the earth's ocean / the hydrosphere (geology) | |
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| | yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe | |
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| | the earth's core / geocentric | |
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| | god of the earth | |
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| | expert / scholar / mother earth / a type of green tea | |
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| | rare earth (chemistry) | |
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| | cubic meter of earth (unit of measurement) / excavated soil / earthwork (abbr. for 土方工程) / (TCM) folk remedy | |
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| | heaven and earth / yin and yang | |
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| | Temple of Earth (in Beijing) | |
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| | lit. to rebuke Heaven and Earth (idiom); fig. shaking the whole world / all-powerful | |
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| | lit. the difference between heaven and earth (idiom) / fig. night and day difference; a world of difference; a far cry (from) | |
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| | Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth / Shangri-La, a county-level city in Yunnan that takes its name from the fictional land of the 1933 novel | |
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| | to obliterate completely / to vanish from the face of the earth | |
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| | the Earth's crust | |
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| | (idiom) during one's lifetime; while one is on this earth; in one's remaining years | |
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| | hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive / fig. having an uncomfortable time | |
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| | horizon / ends of the earth / remotest places | |
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| | lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering / omnipresent / of universal importance | |
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| | lit. able to support both heaven and earth / of indomitable spirit (idiom) | |
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| | burial (in earth) | |
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| | the earth quaked, the mountains shook (idiom); a tremendous battle | |
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| | rammed earth | |
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| | lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess | |
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| | the whole earth / the universe | |
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| | core of the earth (geology) | |
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| | earth-shattering / breakthrough / remarkable and original work | |
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| | (of an emperor) to pay homage to Heaven at Mount Tai and to Earth at Mount Liangfu | |
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| | the sky spins, the earth goes round (idiom); giddy with one's head spinning / fig. huge changes in the world | |
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| | scorched earth | |
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| | strip of high ground / low earth dyke separating fields | |
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| | hard earth | |
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| | earth dam / dam of earth and rocks (as opposed to waterproof dam of clay or concrete) | |
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| | (coll.) (emphasizing a rhetorical question) what / what kind / why on earth | |
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| | earth embankment used to hold back or retain water / dike around a paddy field | |
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| | (astronomy) the moon's path around the earth / legitimate, lawful activities (contrasted with 黑道) / law-abiding citizenry | |
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| | a clod of earth / land | |
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| | (literary) earth ridge between fields / (used in place names) | |
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| | lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance | |
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| | lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom) / fig. to change the course of events / to turn things around | |
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| | plowed earth / soil moisture / furrow | |
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| | heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster / fig. violent revolution / major social upheaval | |
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| | lit. made by Heaven and arranged by Earth(idiom) / ideal / perfect / (of a match) made in heaven / to be made for one another | |
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| | lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times | |
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| | solid earth | |
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| | the earth's axis | |
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| | to shake heaven and earth (idiom) | |
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| | (dialect) clod (of earth) | |
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| | to fortify defenses and raze the fields (idiom); to leave nothing for the invader / scorched earth policy | |
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| | lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom) / fig. to be at the end of one's rope / to be trapped in a hopeless situation | |
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| | earth-shaking | |
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| | vanished from the face of the earth / all gone / nothing left | |
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| | material (such as rocks, earth, bamboo etc) used to hastily repair a dike / (literary) door bar (vertical bar used to prevent the horizontal movement of a door bolt) | |
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| | heaven and earth (idiom) | |
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| | large kitchen stove made from bricks or earth / (PRC) ordinary mess hall (lowest dining standard, ranked below 中灶 for mid-level cadres and 小灶 for the most privileged) | |
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| | red earth used for paints | |
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| | strip of high ground / low earth dyke separating fields | |
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| | rammed earth / adobe house | |
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| | clay ox / mound of earth on a dike (ready for emergency repairs) | |
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| | The ends of the earth | |
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| | pile of earth to keep wine jars | |
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