地
dìde HSK1

earth

地 dì frequency
place noun
(bound form) A place; a location; a region

不过，我不想永远待在此地。

bù​guò, wǒ bù​xiǎng yǒng​yuǎn dāi zài cǐ dì.

However, I don’t want to stay here forever.

earth noun
The earth; the ground; land; soil; fields

你买了那块地了吗？

nǐ mǎi le nà kuài dì le ma?

Did you buy that land?

不，我没有钱买地。

bù, wǒ méi​yǒu qián mǎi dì.

No, I don't have the money to buy land.

status noun
(bound form) social position, status, or standing
background noun
(bound form) The background or base color of a pattern or design.
mental state adjective
(bound form) state of mind or level of insight or understanding, such as in 心地 xīn​dì or 见地 jiàn​dì
[adverbial suffix] adverb
(literary) an adverbial suffix, as in 蓦地 mò​de or 忽地 hū​de
distance
(bound form) Used after numbers to indicate distance or travel progress, specifically in terms of li or bus stops.
surname
a Chinese surname
prefecture
(Mainland China) administrative division at the level between province and county; prefecture
[particle]
(archaic) used after certain verbs such as 立 lì, 坐 zuò, or 卧 wò, similar to the modern 着 zhe
地 de
[-ly] particle
Connects a describing word or phrase to the verb or adjective it describes, turning that word or phrase into an adverb.

Cross-References

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Classifier

Same as

Has variant

Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
21st most common 5009.5 per million
Movie subtitles
101st most common 1668.0 per million appears in 99% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
536.8 per million appears in 78% of films
Written text
1892.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5730

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)