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Mythic Mandarin

大地 (dà dì): meaning and stroke order

大地 (dà dì) means earth, mother earth.

大地

Simplified
大地
Traditional
大地 (same form)
Pinyin
dà dì

Stroke order of 大地

大

  • dà big; large; great; older (than another person)
  • dài see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

地

  • de -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
  • dì earth; ground
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 大地

  1. dà dì
    • earth
    • mother earth

Radicals of the characters

大
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 3 strokes · built from 一 and 人
地
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 6 strokes · 土 on the left, 也 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

大地 in our stories

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  • 他的头发变成了天上的星星，皮肤上的汗毛化作了大地上的草木。

    tā de tóufa biànchéng le tiān shàng de xīngxing pífū shàng de hànmáo huàzuò le dàdì shàng de cǎomù

    His hair became the stars in the sky, and the fine hairs on his skin became the grass and trees of the earth.

    From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 山被撞断了，天空向西北倾斜，日月星辰都滑向了那一边；大地则向东南塌陷，江河的水都向东流去。

    shān bèi zhuàng duàn le tiānkōng xiàng xīběi qīngxié rì yuè xīngchén dōu huá xiàng le nà yìbiān dàdì zé xiàng dōngnán tāxiàn jiānghé de shuǐ dōu xiàng dōng liú qù

    The mountain broke. The sky tilted towards the north-west and the sun, moon and stars slid that way, while the earth sank towards the south-east and all the rivers began to flow east.

    From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 大地

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).