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Mythic Mandarin

地下 (dì xià): meaning and stroke order

地下 (dì xià) means underground, subterranean, covert.

地下

Simplified
地下
Traditional
地下 (same form)
Pinyin
dì xià

Stroke order of 地下

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

下

  • xià down; downwards
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 地下

  1. dì xià
    • underground
    • subterranean
    • covert

Radicals of the characters

地
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 6 strokes · 土 on the left, 也 on the right
下
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 3 strokes · 一 on top, 卜 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.

地下 in our stories

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  • 聂岚想了想，提出了一个折中的方案：把停车场建在地下，地面上保留早市，顺便把破旧的顶棚修一修。

    Niè Lán xiǎng le xiǎng tíchū le yí gè zhézhōng de fāng'àn bǎ tíngchēchǎng jiàn zài dìxià dìmiàn shàng bǎoliú zǎoshì shùnbiàn bǎ pòjiù de dǐngpéng xiū yì xiū

    Nie Lan thought for a moment and put forward a compromise: build the car park underground, keep the market above ground, and fix its shabby roof while they were at it.

    From the story The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 地下

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).