地

ground, land; -ly (慢慢地 slowly)

No. 34 most used

Also read: de 慢慢地

How it's built

• 土earth
• 也also

A way to remember it

The earth (土) is also (也) wherever you stand: the ground.

Words

• 地方

  dì fāng

  region; regional (away from the central administration); local
• 地球

  dì qiú

  the earth
• 地狱

  dì yù

  hell; underworld; (Buddhism) Naraka; (coll.) (of humor, jokes, content etc) extremely dark or morally transgressive
• 土地

  tǔ dì

  land; soil; territory
• 地址

  dì zhǐ

  address; CL:个
• 地上

  dì shang

  on the ground; on the floor

Sentences

• 下一站是什么地方？

  xià yí zhàn shì shén me dì fāng

  What's the next station?
• 他从什么地方来的？

  tā cóng shén me dì fāng lái de

  Where does he come from?
• 她一心一意地工作。

  tā yì xīn yí yì de gōng zuò

  She works with single-minded determination.
• 我常常在这个地方。

  wǒ cháng cháng zài zhè ge dì fāng

  I'm often here.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.