填海造地
tián​hǎi​zào​dì

to reclaim land from the sea

  • created sense approved 填海造地 · tián​hǎi​zào​dì · to reclaim land from the sea — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    填海造地

    tián​hǎi​zào​dì

    to reclaim land from the sea

    To fill in sea water and turn it into dry land for development or agricultural use.

    填海 (literal) → 填海 · tián​hǎi · land reclamation 造 (literal) → 造 · zào · to build 地 (literal) → 地 · dì · earth

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense