地 dì

1. dì noun soil; ground; land
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Geography
   Notes: As in 土地, or 地面 (CED '地' 3, 4; FE '地' 2; Kroll 2015 '地' 2, pp. 83-84)
2. de particle subordinate particle
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words , Concept: Structural Particle 结构助词
   Notes: 地 can only be placed after an adverbial adjunct. For example, 笑容满面地走进央视西门 'walked into the CCTV West Gate with a big smile [on his] face.' (VOA 2016-01-25; Kroll 2015 '地' 7, pp. 83-84)
3. dì noun floor
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '地' 3, pp. 83-84)
4. dì proper noun the earth
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: For example, 天地玄黃 'The sky was black and earth yellow.' (CED '地' 1; FE '地' 1; Kroll 2015 '地' 1, pp. 83-84; QZW)
5. dì noun fields
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Agriculture
   Notes: As in 天地 (FE '地' 2; CED '地' 3)
6. dì noun a place
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 地方 or 地点, for example, in the idiom 因地制宜 'to accord with local customs using appropriate measures' (CCI '因地制宜'; CED '地' 8, 9; FE '地' 4; Kroll 2015 '地' 2b, pp. 83-84)
7. dì noun a situation; a position
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: As in 地位 (FE '地' 4; CED '地' 10)
8. dì noun background
   Domain: Art 艺术
   Notes: As in the background of a painting (CED '地' 12)
9. dì noun terrain
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '地' 2c, pp. 83-84)
10. dì noun a territory; a region
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Geography
    Notes: As in 陆地 (CED '地' 2; FE '地' 3; Kroll 2015 '地' 2a, pp. 83-84)
11. dì noun used after a distance measure
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Geography
    Notes: To indicate that the measure is for travel distance (CED '地' 13)
12. dì adjective coming from the same clan
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '地' 5, pp. 83-84)

Contained in

• 卷地皮 to plunder the land and extort from the peasant; corrupt practice
• 地心说(地心說) geocentric theory
• 拜科努尔航天发射基地(拜科努爾航天發射基地) Baikonur Cosmodrome
• 无地自容(無地自容) ashamed and unable to show one's face
• 愧悔无地(愧悔無地) ashamed and unable to show one's face
• 地震 earthquake
• 外地 parts of the country other than where one is
• 租地人投标票权(租地人投標票權) occupation franchise
• 扑地(撲地) a striking sound ; suddenly ; everywhere
• 倒地 to fall to the ground
• 目的地 a destination
• 极地(極地) polar region
• 宿营地(宿營地) camp; campsite
• 地理信息科学(地理信息科學) geographic information science
• 领先地位(領先地位) lead position
• 烽烟遍地(烽煙遍地) fire beacons on all sides; enveloped in the flames of war
• 威信扫地(威信掃地) to lose every scrap of reputation
• 非核地带(非核地帶) nuclear-free zone
• 藏地 Tibetan
• 投票地点(投票地點) voting place
• 坟地(墳地) a cemetery
• 地中海 Mediterranean Sea
• 旧地重游(舊地重遊) to revisit old haunts; down memory lane
• 开天避地(開天避地) to open the sky and divide the earth
• 江河行地 rivers run across the land; nature is unchangeable
• 地牢 prison; dungeon
• 地质统计学(地質統計學) environmental geography
• 地面气压(地面氣壓) ground pressure
• 占地方 to take up space

Also contained in

平凉地区 、 万县地区 、 淮阴地区 、 近畿地方 、 三地门 、 塔城地区 、 收地 、 济宁地区 、 只赢得眼睛也落地 、 遵义地区 、 河池地区 、 玉溪地区 、 山南地区 、 沙地 、 梁显利油麻地社区中心 、 嫩江地区 、 增曜地 、 南充地区 、 伏地魔 、 花地玛堂区 、 焰慧地 、 潘地亚

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷五十九 志第十二 天文十二 Volume 59 Treatises 12: Astronomy 12 History of Song 宋史 — count: 254
• 卷五十七 志第十 天文十 Volume 57 Treatises 10: Astronomy 10 History of Song 宋史 — count: 126
• 卷五十八 志第十一 天文十一 Volume 58 Treatises 11: Astronomy 11 History of Song 宋史 — count: 115
• 卷四十一 志第二十一: 地理四 Volume 41 Treatises 21: Geography 4 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 99
• 卷四十七　志第二十八:　食貨二 田制 租賦 牛頭稅 Volume 47 Treatises 28: Finance and Economics 2 - Administration of Farming, Rent and Taxes, Taxes on Oxes History of Jin 金史 — count: 99
• 卷三十六 志第二十六 州郡二 Volume 36 Treatises 26: Administrative Districts 2 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 94
• 卷六十一　志第十三: 　地理四 Volume 61 Treatises 14: Geography 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 82
• 卷三百十五 列傳第二百〇三 雲南土司三 Volume 315 Biographies 203: Yunnan Tribal Headmen 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 81
• 卷三十八 志第二十八 州郡四 Volume 38 Treatises 28: Administrative Districts 4 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 80
• 卷三十 志第六 五行三 Volume 30 Treatises 6: Five Elements 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 78

Collocations

• 公子地 (公子地) 公子地 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 9
• 侵地 (侵地) 班其所取侵地于諸侯也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 7
• 卫地 (衛地) 及衛地 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 6
• 祭天地 (祭天地) 天子祭天地 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曲禮下》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 2 — count: 5
• 地正 (地正) 以地正國也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 定公 Lord Ding — count: 4
• 地会 (地會) 則地會 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 3
• 鲁地 (魯地) 如魯地 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 3
• 地盟 (地盟) 不地盟 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 3
• 地出奔 (地出奔) 宋公子地出奔陳 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 定公 Lord Ding — count: 3
• 曹地 (曹地) 分曹地也 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 3