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地方 (dì fāng): meaning and stroke order

地方 (dì fāng) means region, regional (away from the central administration), local, area, place, space, room.

地方

Simplified
地方
Traditional
地方 (same form)
Pinyin
dì fāng · dì fang

Stroke order of 地方

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

方

  • Fāng surname Fang
  • fāng square; power or involution (math.)
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 地方

  1. dì fāng
    • region
    • regional (away from the central administration)
    • local
  2. dì fang
    • area
    • place
    • space
    • room
    • territory
    • CL:處|处[chu4],個|个[ge4],塊|块[kuai4]

Radicals of the characters

地
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 6 strokes · 土 on the left, 也 on the right
方
Radical 方 (Kangxi radical 70) · 4 strokes · 丶 on top, 万 below

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.

地方 in our stories

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  • 她只好说真话:“我奶奶年轻的时候去过很多地方,我从小就爱听她讲旅行的故事。”

    tā zhǐhǎo shuō zhēnhuà wǒ nǎinai niánqīng de shíhou qù guò hěn duō dìfang wǒ cóngxiǎo jiù ài tīng tā jiǎng lǚxíng de gùshi

    She has no choice but to tell the truth: "My grandma travelled a lot when she was young. Ever since I was little, I've loved listening to her travel stories."

    From the story The honest answer HSK 3

  • 书里的花也不一样,好像是从不同的地方摘来的。

    shū lǐ de huā yě bù yíyàng hǎoxiàng shì cóng bùtóng de dìfang zhāi lái de

    The flowers were all different too, as if picked in different places.

    From the story Flowers in the book return HSK 5

  • 那两个星期,潘杰每天只睡五个小时,每写完一页,就存到三个地方。

    nà liǎng gè xīngqī Pān Jié měitiān zhǐ shuì wǔ gè xiǎoshí měi xiě wán yí yè jiù cún dào sān gè dìfang

    For those two weeks Pan Jie slept only five hours a night, and every time he finished a page he saved it in three places.

    From the story Mending the fold after the sheep is lost HSK 5

Stories using 地方

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).