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Definitions
- 1. -ly
- 2. structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
Example Sentences
1 shown淡淡 地 愛我，長久 地 愛我。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 地
Lhokha prefecture of Tibet, Tibetan: Lho kha sa khul
local bully
The ends of the earth
earth (wire)
geothermal resources
to lose every scrap of reputation
human geography
Sandinista National Liberation Front
geologist
air-to-surface (missile)
China University of Geosciences
Tudi Gong, the local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion)
World Wide Web (WWW)
Great Sichuan Earthquake (2008)
to farm; to work the land
floor lamp
habitat
Auld Lang Syne, Scottish song with lyrics by Robert Burns 羅伯特·伯恩斯|罗伯特·伯恩斯[luó bó tè · bó ēn sī], sung to mark the start of a new year or as a farewell
in all parts of (a country)
to live miles apart (idiom)
land
the birthplace (of sth good)
Freddie Mac, US mortgage company
to confiscate land for redistribution (China, 1947-52)
Earth orbit (orbit of a satellite around the Earth)
globe
(bird species of China) plain-backed thrush (Zoothera mollissima)
field
ground control (of airborne or space operation)
on-site
to take cities and seize territories (idiom)
the earth's core
a saltmarsh
former Tibetan province of Kham, now split between Tibet and Sichuan
barren land
prison
to plow
geopolitics
Panzhihua prefecture in south Sichuan, bordering Yunnan
see 天荒地老[tiān huāng dì lǎo]
Marathi language of west India
construction site
texture
Zhaotong prefecture in Yunnan
pedestrian underpass
area of mixed habitation
to land
Enshi in Hubei
handcart
rushing to stake one's claim in new markets (idiom)
Linfen prefecture in Shanxi
Wuwei prefecture in Gansu
earthquake epicenter
address resolution protocol
Daxing'anling prefecture in northwest Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[hēi lóng jiāng] in northeast China
green area (e.g. urban park or garden)
Liuzhou prefecture in Guangxi
to prepare the soil (agriculture)
performance place
surface nuclear explosion
voting place
Parish of Our Lady of Fatima (Macau)
geographical position according to the principles of feng shui 風水|风水[fēng shuǐ]
underground nuclear test
Ejin Banner in Alxa League 阿拉善盟[ā lā shàn méng], Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979)
hinterland
(bird species of China) green-billed malkoha (Phaenicophaeus tristis)
since 1983, Jinjiang, county-level city, Fujian
geolocation
world-shaking (idiom)
necropolis
behind sb's back
ugg boots
Yan'an prefecture, Shaanxi
disaster area
floor tile
Lhalu Wetland National Nature Reserve in Lhasa
geological time scale
the Earth's crust
feet not touching the ground (idiom)
to score a try (sports)
to worship heaven and earth
see 天差地遠|天差地远[tiān chā dì yuǎn]
Great Sichuan Earthquake (2008)
polar region
to go underground
see 死心塌地[sǐ xīn tā dì]
Santiago, capital of Chile
Huizhou prefecture 惠州[huì zhōu], Guangdong
Ya'an prefecture in Sichuan
seismologist
place for activities (playground, event venue etc)
thematic map
local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion) (same as 土地公|土地公[tǔ dì gōng])
topography
border area
once familiar places
to distribute land
destination address
local official
\Fight the Landlord\ (card game)
room to maneuver; leeway; latitude
the time is right, geographical and social conditions are favorable (idiom); a good time to go to war
Tarbaghatay wilayiti or Tacheng prefecture in Xinjiang
delighted
(geology) landform; geomorphology
(dialect) not that great
Lishui prefecture, Zhejiang
Erlian Basin in Inner Mongolia
Mianyang prefecture in north Sichuan around Mianyang, Sichuan's second city
cultivated land
well-known scenic spot
thalassemia (medicine)
place for negotiations
real estate; landed estate; landed property
Croatian (language)
lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom)
mountainous district
daddy (loanword)
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
current address
mind map
border area
stack address (computing)
surface water
Xuchang prefecture in Henan
Yulin prefecture, Shaanxi
Kṣitigarbha, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi)
floor tom (drum kit component)
(fig.) tiny speck of land; small area
unit of area (e.g. 畝|亩[mǔ], Chinese acre)
Jining prefecture in Shandong
regional
Greater London
hell
basement
underground
Bekaa Valley between Lebanon and Syria
trouble appearing from nowhere
horizon
underground
Bazhong prefecture in Panzhihua 攀枝花, south Sichuan
Shijiazhuang prefecture in Hebei
Marathi language of west India
lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom); fig. earth-shattering
secretly; inwardly; on the sly
colony
mailing address; postal address
(page) footer
fire pit
a world of ice and snow
Indiana, US state
somewhere
place of birth
lit. to be confined within a circle drawn on the ground (idiom)
Sweeper Monk, nameless monk who maintains the library of Shaolin (from Jin Yong's novel \Demigods and Semidevils\ 天龍八部|天龙八部[tiān lóng bā bù])
trouble spot
snowmobile
to know all under heaven
ground pressure
(of folk artists) to give a performance at a temple fair or on the street etc
in touch with the common people
geographer
a hero with no chance of using his might
district prosecutor's office
to have room to save a situation
Jinan prefecture in Shandong
Austria
geological time scale
Kham or Chamdo prefecture in Tibet, Tibetan: Chab mdo sa khul, Chinese Qamdo or Changdu
Xinxiang prefecture in Henan
real estate
air-to-surface (missile)
China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), the information hub of the China Earthquake Administration 中國地震局|中国地震局[zhōng guó dì zhèn jú]
administrative enclave
Zhenjiang prefecture in Jiangsu
geothermal electric power station
China Geological Survey (CGS)
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
since 1983, Longyan, county-level city, Fujian
Longnan prefecture in south Gansu (bordering Shaanxi and Sichuan)
localization
Hanzhong prefecture, Shaanxi
(idiom) to use methods in line with local circumstances
to leave room to maneuver; to leave a margin for error
Zhaoqing prefecture in Guangdong
near-Earth object (NEO)
crop land
suddenly
Philistia, aka the Land of the Philistines
onsite visit
local
to fall to the ground
local differences in price
wasteland
seismometer
land reform
Cartier (brand)
happy land
suddenly
Liaocheng prefecture in Shandong
lit. a gulf between heaven and earth (idiom)
favorable location
lit. to go up to heaven or down to Hades (idiom)
Xu Dishan (1893-1941), journalist, publisher and novelist
Heihe prefecture, Heilongjiang
(Buddhism) the Avici Hell, the last and most painful of the eight hot hells
to take up space
China Earthquake Administration (CEA)
holy land (of a religion)
terrace (geography)
Huaiyin prefecture in Jiangsu
parts of the country other than where one is
bully
carpet bombing
see 近地軌道|近地轨道[jìn dì guǐ dào]
habitat
earth's gravity
locally
Chaohu prefecture, Anhui
lit. to fill the whole sky and cover the land; everywhere
Jinhua prefecture, Zhejiang
nuclear land mine
subway station
surface irrigation
sub-prefecture-level city (county level division, administered by province, not under a prefecture)
tourist center
military base
Haidong prefecture, Qinghai
campus
valley
farmland
geodesy
public land
former Yongji prefecture, Jilin
Boko Haram, Islamic insurgent group in north Nigeria
Look out for yourself, or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you.
to mop the floor
(bird species of China) Siberian thrush (Geokichla sibirica)
local
push-up (exercise)
(bird species of China) white-tailed robin (Myiomela leucura)
hidden or secret love affair
vast, but sparsely populated
title deed (for land)
all-terrain vehicle (ATV)
Ganzhou prefecture in Jiangxi
seismology
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 儒勒·凡爾納|儒勒·凡尔纳[rú lè · fán ěr nà]
Weinan prefecture in Shaanxi
Promised Land
cultivable
distant places
San Andreas Fault, California
Junggar Basin, northern Xinjiang
seismic zone
land area
geographic latitude (i.e. angle between the equatorial plane and the normal to the reference ellipsoid)
somewhere
medium depth earthquake (with epicenter 70-300 km deep)
region
metropolitan area
not even enough land to stand an awl (idiom); absolutely destitute
Nyingchi prefecture of Tibet, Tibetan: Nying khri sa khul, Chinese Linzhi
Danxia landform (red conglomerate and sandstone)
local
Al-Qaeda
ashamed and unable to show one's face (idiom)
geographic situation
Yichun prefecture in Jiangxi
place
to act as host
lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom)
sublandlord
landfill
to sweep the floor
barren land
mainland China (PRC excluding Hong Kong and Macau, but including islands such as Hainan)
Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture 延邊朝鮮族自治州|延边朝鲜族自治州[yán biān cháo xiǎn zú zì zhì zhōu] in Jilin province 吉林省[jí lín shěng] in northeast China, capital Yanji city 延吉市[yán jí shì]
Dehui county in Changchun 長春|长春, Jilin
to recover lost territory
saline soil
netherworld
the Ferghana Valley in modern Uzbekistan
suddenly
earthquake bureau
drain
land
Yueyang prefecture in Hunan
urbanized area
tectonic plate
to split heaven and earth apart (idiom); refers to the Pangu 盤古|盘古[pán gǔ] creation myth
the whole world
an ugly wife is a treasure at home (idiom)
Zhumadian prefecture in Henan
Zhangye, prefecture-level city 張掖市|张掖市[zhāng yè shì] (district in Gansu)
to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb
depression
LMI
to make one's bed on the floor
China Earthquake Administration (CEA)
to speculate in building land
oceanic crust (geology)
mixed ethnic area
Tarim Basin depression in southern Xinjiang
arctic fox
mind map
targeted (e.g. attacks)
to place sb on field of death
to start from scratch (idiom)
absolutely fair and reasonable (idiom); equitable
geophysics
landslide
stranger
subterranean
In the sky to be two birds flying wing to wing, on earth to be two trees with branches intertwined
landmark
business address
the tropics
earthquake intensity (measure of its destructive power)
underground railway; subway
fearing nothing in Heaven or Earth (idiom)
geothermal energy
see 門第|门第[mén dì]
(bird species of China) meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis)
enchanting scenery
Zhaoyang district in Liaoning
Ring of Fire (circum-Pacific seismic belt)
lit. to set up a stall on the ground
to be looking for one's teeth all over the floor
birthplace
email address
regionalism
Leshan prefecture in Sichuan
Medina, Saudi Arabia
native person (of a country)
Asia-Pacific region
territory belonging to a third party (as a neutral location for peace negotiations or as a transit point for indirect travel or trade etc)
a large landowner
earth spirit
the 12 earthly branches 子[zǐ], 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers)
moment-to-moment
to plunder the land and extort from the peasant
floor with tiled design
Hong Kong Wetland Park, in Yuen Long, New Territories
sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion
Hengyang prefecture in Hunan
domain
Earthly Sovereign, one of the three legendary sovereigns 三皇[sān huáng]
(bird species of China) Mongolian ground jay (Podoces hendersoni)
the 12 earthly branches 子[zǐ], 丑[chǒu], 寅[yín], 卯[mǎo], 辰[chén], 巳[sì], 午[wǔ], 未[wèi], 申[shēn], 酉[yǒu], 戌[xū], 亥[hài], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
broadcast address
home team (sports)
capital territory
Shantou prefecture, Guangdong
Simao prefecture in Yunnan
to lie prostrate
delivery address
in all honesty
Great Tangshan Earthquake (1976)
Guang'an prefecture-level city in Sichuan
relative address (computing)
favorable geographical and social conditions (idiom); good location and the people satisfied
different place
wetland
Qingyang prefecture in Gansu
marsh
land grader
mountainous region
moral high ground
until the end of time (idiom)
lit. for one's face to reach rock bottom
Hechi prefecture in Guangxi
(computing) network address translation
lit. strong dragon cannot repress a snake (idiom); fig. a local gangster who is above the law
paleomagnetism
danger spot
here
Hindi (language)
Monopoly (game)
earth (electric connection)
Jiuquan prefecture in Gansu
sildenafil (virility drug) (loanword)
to become a Buddha on the spot (idiom); instant rehabilitation
Swat valley in Pakistani Northwest Frontier
not to know the immensity of heaven and earth
to put it simply; simply put
geography
position
station
bare ground
open space
all over the world
to be located at
tunnel
local
local time
geocentric latitude (i.e. angle between the equatorial plane and straight line from center of the earth)
Tiandihui (Chinese fraternal organization)
fertile arable soil of loess plateau
Anshun prefecture in Guizhou
native American
(bird species of China) Pander's ground jay (Podoces panderi)
lichen
live betting
Great East African rift valley
geostrategic
border district
Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia
traction
Dezhou prefecture in Shandong
(in) the original place
carpet slippers
floor
earthquake
earth's magnetic field
to be hell-bent on
to be thoroughly discredited
Zunyi prefecture in Guizhou
lawn
Baise prefecture in Guangxi
Judea
lit. if thrown on the floor, it will make a sound (idiom)
to execute on the spot (idiom); summary execution
surface water
the world's first seismograph invented by Zhang Heng 張衡|张衡[zhāng héng] in 132
living area
local or regional confrontation
Xintiandi (shopping, eating and entertainment district of Shanghai)
crustal movement
geography
map
property tax
(acknowledged) place
Tieling prefecture and county in Liaoning
to shake heaven and earth (idiom)
desperate straits
geophysics
Yantai prefecture in Shandong
landlord
return address
Luoyang prefecture in Henan
the Turpan Depression in Xinjiang
Lincang prefecture in Yunnan
ground-to-air missile
pasture
It's all exaggeration, you don't need to take it seriously
Asia-Pacific region
certificate of origin (CO or CoO) (commerce)
lot
hell
landing site
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi)
track bike
to die without a burial site
mountain bike
Wenjiang district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan
kelocyanor
to vacuum the floor
local
lit. able to support both heaven and earth
poor region
grip on the road
atlas
ground troops
Indiana, US state
see 畫地為牢|画地为牢[huà dì wéi láo]
to take up space
(bird species of China) slaty-bellied tesia (Tesia olivea)
place of origin
the world's first seismograph invented by Zhang Heng 張衡|张衡[zhāng héng] in 132
dry land (as opposed to the sea)
to move one's base (of operations)
underground bank
forbidden area
the sky spins, the earth goes round (idiom); giddy with one's head spinning
place of origin
geodesic
Guatemala
trench, rift valley
enduring while the world lasts (idiom, from Laozi); eternal
Chinese violet (Viola mandsurica)
stage
Santimen township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[píng dōng xiàn], Taiwan
free-range chicken
air base
to leave some leeway
location of political, economic, military, or cultural importance (usu. not open to the general public); sensitive area
hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive
Great Sichuan Earthquake (2008)
Santiago, capital of Chile
Lianyuan county in Loudi 婁底|娄底[lóu dǐ], Hunan
(military) position
authentic
space
see 阿鼻地獄|阿鼻地狱[ā bí dì yù]
Guilin precture in Guangxi
enemy territory
prefecture-level city
Ground Zero
Happy Valley (suburb of Hong Kong)
distribution center
a geodesic (curve)
vast territory with abundant resources (idiom)
the Yili basin around Urumqi in Xinjiang
lit. arising suddenly above the level ground (idiom); sudden emergence of prominent new feature
sweet potato or yam noodles
lit. 300 silver taels not hidden here (idiom); fig. to reveal what one intends to hide
inhabited land
Thank heavens!
Ground Zero (refers to the site of the World Trade Center destroyed in 9-11-2001 attack)
to talk endlessly; to talk about everything under the sun
original source
collection of maps
Qinzhou prefecture in Guangxi
specially
a local person
Yibin, prefecture-level city in Sichuan
camp
churchyard
same place as before
ground floor
Gaza Strip
brandy (loanword)
landing visa; visa on arrival
Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.
local guide
secretly; inwardly; on the sly
land mine (CL:顆|颗[kē])
oceanic crust (geology)
floor tile
stratum (geology)
floor
place name in Ningxia with rock carving conjectured to be a stage in the development of Chinese characters
heaven and earth
see 友誼地久天長|友谊地久天长[yǒu yì dì jiǔ tiān cháng]
lit. made by Heaven and arranged by Earth(idiom)
webaddress
to put oneself in sb else's shoes
concession (territory)
Yuxi prefecture in Yunnan
to level
Guatemalan (person)
ten-pin bowling
the earth's axis
land use plan (official P.R.C. government term)
place of issue (of document)
according to the location
feudal fiefdom
to harrow
Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth)
sandy beach or river bank
unequal treaty of 1898 whereby the Qing dynasty ceded the lease of Lüshun (Port Arthur) to Russia
carpet
stratigraphy (geology)
four great basin depressions of China, namely: Tarim 塔里木盆地 in south Xinjiang, Jungar 準葛爾盆地|准葛尔盆地 and Tsaidam or Qaidam 柴達木盆地|柴达木盆地 in north Xinjiang Sichuan 四川盆地
Yiyang prefecture in Hunan
gnome
world map
arable land
to hoe
Al-Qaeda
Suzhou region in Jiangsu
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi)
street stall with goods laid out on the ground
to mop the floor
see 啟海話|启海话[qǐ hǎi huà]
illustrious hero, spirit of the place (idiom); a place derives reflected glory from an illustrious son
Shaoguan prefecture in Guangdong
Shennongjialin, directly administered forestry reserve in east Hubei
(dated) Taiwanese indigenous peoples
Tongren prefecture in Guizhou
first line of the Thousand Character Classic 千字文[qiān zì wén]
(bird species of China) lowland white-eye (Zosterops meyeni)
(bird species of China) long-tailed thrush (Zoothera dixoni)
source address
section
interregional
tunnel
land-owning classes
naval and air military base
local god
coastland
Suihua prefecture, Heilongjiang
local Chinese opera, such as Shaoxing opera 越劇|越剧[yuè jù], Sichuan opera 川劇|川剧[chuān jù], Henan opera 豫劇|豫剧[yù jù] etc
heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster
land rent
to kneel and beg forgiveness
Ningbo prefecture, Zhejiang
World Heritage site
(bird species of China) blue-fronted robin (Cinclidium frontale)
(idiom) poles apart; as different as can be
geothermal
Yulin prefecture in Guangxi
sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion
place name
battlefield
inescapable net (idiom)
to fall to the ground
Shaoxing prefecture, Zhejiang
neighbor on farmland
Ngari prefecture in Tibet, Tibetan: Mnga' ris sa khul
to stand out among one's peers (idiom)
cellar
earth science
Di Tang Quan - \Ground-Prone Fist\
circumstances
Eurasian hinterland (i.e. Central Asia including Xinjiang)
murine typhus fever
lines on ridges on ploughed field
Sudetenland
catastrophes and unnatural phenomena
Wuzhou prefecture in Guangxi
bunker (underground fortification)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
writing on the ground with a large brush dipped in water
Bohai Economic Rim (economic region including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Liaoning and Shandong)
place sb on a field of death and he will fight to live (idiom based on Sunzi's \The Art of War\ 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[sūn zǐ bīng fǎ]); to fight desperately when confronting mortal danger
cavern
the surface (of the earth)
geopolitics
Enclosure Movement
kindhearted
topographic map
rent income (esp. from arable land)
local Chinese opera, such as Shaoxing opera 越劇|越剧[yuè jù], Sichuan opera 川劇|川剧[chuān jù], Henan opera 豫劇|豫剧[yù jù] etc
bargaining position
to clear land (for cultivation)
cemetery
low Earth orbit (LEO)
terrestrial planet
geocentric theory
vegetable field
opinion
to trickle
underground palace (as part of imperial tomb)
Shaoyang prefecture in Hunan
earthquake swarm
Hotan Prefecture in Xinjiang
to mark time (military)
to rise steeply from level ground
backwards and forwards
Lijiang prefecture in northwest Yunnan
Malan military base and atomic test site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[bā yīn guō léng měng gǔ zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang
local autonomy
semicolonial
underpass
(of a baby) to be born
strategic location
geoid
(bird species of China) Xinjiang ground jay (Podoces biddulphi)
territory
the sticks
thoroughgoing
dexamethasone
mountain bike
staking a claim to territory
(airport) ground crew
(administrative) prefecture-level
landscape
here and now
character
every part of the country
Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi)
local guide
cellar
Dingxi prefecture in Gansu
Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi
since 1983, Putian, prefecture-level city, Fujian
once familiar places
graveyard
deep earthquake (with epicenter more than 300 km deep)
lit. the sky shakes and the ground revolves
the earth quaked, the mountains shook (idiom); a tremendous battle
gravitation
long-distance romance
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
Qujing prefecture in Yunnan
(bird species of China) dark-sided thrush (Zoothera marginata)
Zhangjiakou prefecture in Hebei
to sit on the ground or the floor (idiom)
area of farmland
Hispaniola (Caribbean Island divided between Dominican Republic and Haiti)
diazepam (loanword)
regional court
to go down to the fields
suddenly; abruptly
(idiom) to cry out to heaven and knock one's head against the ground (as an expression of anguish)
clash that leaves both sides shattered
geodesic curvature
Northern Territory, sparsely populated federal territory extending from center to north of Australia
location
Bailuwan Wetland Park, Chengdu
land resources
the Andes mountains
nuclear underground burst
(bird species of China) long-billed thrush (Zoothera monticola)
(geography) basin
non-irrigated farm land on low hills
enduring while the world lasts (idiom)
address
parcel of land
(bird species of China) Asian desert warbler (Sylvia nana)
Changde prefecture in Hunan
Sichuan basin
now Chengde prefecture-level city
geographic pole
geochemistry
Yanqi basin in northeast of Tarim basin
(used on signs) caution - wet floor (lit. \be careful
a piece of land of 1.3 mu 畝|亩[mǔ]
Yuncheng prefecture in Shanxi
highland
Croatia
on the ground
seismic zone
gray area
Bijie prefecture in Guizhou
lit. to draw a line on the ground to keep within (idiom)
Golan Heights
swiftly
Wanxian prefecture in Sichuan, renamed Wanzhou district of Chongqing municipality in 1990
Haiti, the western third of Caribbean island Hispaniola
Mediterranean Sea
groundwater
fire beacons on all sides (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war
tragedy of the commons (economics)
(bird species of China) chestnut-headed tesia (Cettia castaneocoronata)
Xuzhou prefecture in Jiangsu
ashamed and unable to show one's face
core of the earth (geology)
liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha)
lead(ing) position
area
stubble land after crop has been taken
destination address
shallow earthquake (with epicenter less than 70 km deep)
to rent land
earth history
(loanword) Japanese ardisia (Ardisia japonica) (herb)
Fuyang prefecture in Anhui
(TCM) Japanese ardisia (Ardisia japonica)
red carpet
to clean the floor
lowland
Linyi prefecture in Shandong
county court
invincible position
secretly
Suxian county, Anhui
seismic wave
wilderness
pit
semifeudal and semicolonial (the official Marxist description of China in the late Qing and under the Guomindang)
Republic of Croatia
mail address
Gyangzê county, Tibetan: Rgyal rtse rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
the scene of the incident
absolute address (computing)
base of operations
French window
cadaster
global village
to blossom everywhere
innate quality
to draw on local resources
base (of operations)
to level the land
to sleep on the ground (idiom)
geodesic curvature
to maintain the land (with rotation of crops or fertilizer)
lit. to blame the heavens and reproach the earth
seismic zone
small and densely populated
everywhere
Zhanjiang prefecture in Guangdong
industrial and mining area
ground service (airport)
lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper
Pingliang prefecture in Gansu
foundations (of a building)
Altay prefecture in Xinjiang
source (of a product)
the great Shaanxi earthquake of 2nd February 1556 that killed 830,000 people
apogee
Kantō earthquake of 1923, magnitude 8.2, that killed 200,000 people in the Tokyo area
Ningde prefecture in Fujian
home address
terrain
county seat
former Tonghua prefecture, Jilin
dish consisting of stir-fried potato, eggplant and green pepper
Chinese Geophysical Society
destination (location)
Shigatse or Xigaze prefecture in central Tibet, Tibetan: Gzhis ka rtse sa khul, Chinese Rikaze
poles apart (idiom)
(bird species of China) grey-bellied tesia (Tesia cyaniventer)
soil fertility
to have one's feet firmly planted on the ground (idiom); realistic without flights of fancy
Yichang prefecture in Hubei
suddenly
air plant (Bryophyllum pinnatum)
Qeshqer wilayiti, Kashgar or Kāshí prefecture in west Xinjiang near Kyrgyzstan
underground sewage network
geology
subway
plot of land
lay down butcher's knife, become a Buddha on the spot (idiom); instant rehabilitation
tableland
(geology) (the earth's) mantle
to spend one's time in drinking and pleasure (idiom); to indulge in sensual pleasures
geology
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (media term used esp. since 1997)
place
denudation
dependency
local economy
Tirana, capital of Albania
see 腳不沾地|脚不沾地[jiǎo bù zhān dì]
the Wuhan area
cape (geography)
garden area
zone
Xiangtan prefecture in Hunan
earth-shattering
margin
local
Nagchu prefecture in central Tibet, Tibetan: Nag chu sa khul
the earth
(bird species of China) ground tit (Pseudopodoces humilis)
earth-shaking
geographical location
air-to-surface missile
camp
multicast address
illegally recycled waste cooking oil
woodland
towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom)
lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)
apsis
Temple of Earth (in Beijing)
the earth's magnetic field
Aqsu Wilayiti or Aksu prefecture in Xinjiang
to offer one's life in sacrifice
stop (on a bus or train route)
private plot allocated to an individual on a collective farm
floating hell
deeply affecting (idiom)
behind sb's back
cellar
to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom)
earth
Hong Kong and Macao area
marsh
nuclear-free zone
to requisition land
Mudanjiang prefecture in Heilongjiang
Huaihai, economic hub around Xuzhou 徐州[xú zhōu], including parts of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces
to lose territory
groundspeed (of an aircraft etc)
geothermal electric power station
Kaifeng prefecture in Henan
one by one
Tai'an prefecture in Shandong
prefectural Party committee
loess landform
floor area
vacant land
(Mahatma) Gandhi
anytime and anywhere
see 撂地[liào dì]
authentic
developed area
Weifang prefecture in Shandong
ample scope for abilities
(bird species of China) scaly thrush (Zoothera dauma)
to orbit the earth
coastal area
(bird species of China) orange-headed thrush (Geokichla citrina)
area
Santimen township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[píng dōng xiàn], Taiwan
green area (e.g. urban park or garden)
floor