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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
lawn / meadow / sod / turf / CL:
HSK 2
parts of the country other than where one is
HSK 2
in all parts of (a country) / various regions
HSK 3
local
HSK 3
dry land (as opposed to the sea)
HSK 4
land / soil / territory / CL: , 塊|块
HSK 4
base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc)
HSK 5
inland / interior / hinterland
HSK 6
space / site / place / sports pitch
HSK 6
garden area
HSK 6
specially / for a special purpose
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
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
destination (location)
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
(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
cemetery / graveyard
HSK 7-9
heaven and earth / world / scope / field of activity
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
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)
polar region
air base
Tahiti, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia (Tw)
to distribute land
a world of ice and snow
location; site
al-Qaeda
camp
(Tw) local; native (from Taiwanese 在地, Tai-lo pr. [tsāi-tē])
highland / upland
air-to-surface (missile)
Xintiandi (shopping, eating and entertainment district of Shanghai)
dependency / possession / annexed territory
to sweep the floor / (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom / to be at an all-time low
suddenly
territory; domain; estate / (old) fief
earth (electric connection) / to earth
Sichuan basin
according to the location / everywhere / any place / from any location / from wherever you like
here / this place
different place / abroad
administrative enclave / land of one country enclosed within another / a salient
Haiti, the western third of Caribbean island Hispaniola
to fall to the ground
holy land (of a religion) / sacred place / shrine / holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc) / center of historic interest
daddy (loanword)
battlefield
to level / to raze to the ground
authentic / original
local god / genius loci
wetland
habitat
Junggar Basin, northern Xinjiang
innate quality / natural disposition
to land / to touch the ground / also pr. [zhuo2 di4]
lit. eclipsing the sky and blanketing the earth (idiom) / fig. arriving in overwhelming quantities; engulfing; all-pervasive
(idiom) world-shaking
station / encampment
danger spot / Jedi (in Star Wars)
blessed land; a place rich in beauty or natural resources etc / (term of respect) your place
to farm; to work the land
happy land / paradise
forbidden area / restricted area / (fig.) sth considered off-limits
suddenly; unexpectedly
colony
mountainous region / hilly area / hilly country
lit. able to support both heaven and earth / of indomitable spirit (idiom)
to talk endlessly; to talk about everything under the sun
to mop the floor / (of a gown etc) to trail on the ground / full-length
lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom) / fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
to prepare the soil (agriculture)
to stand out among one's peers (idiom) / to excel
once familiar places / former haunts
to die without a burial site / to die a pauper / a tragic end
delighted / with great joy / in high spirits
to put oneself in sb else's shoes
distribution center
semifeudal and semicolonial (the official Marxist description of China in the late Qing and under the Guomindang)
to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb
brandy (loanword)
camp; campsite
somewhere / some place
It's all exaggeration, you don't need to take it seriously / a fuss about nothing / nothing to write home about

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