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余地

yú dì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 餘地

余地 (yú dì) means "margin; leeway". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 余地 means

1. margin
2. leeway

The characters in 余地

• 余yú(literary) I; me; variant of 余
• 地dìearth; ground; field

Example sentences

• 那时我没有选择的余地。
  Nàshí wǒ méiyǒu xuǎnzé de yúdì.
  I had no choice.
• 我感觉好像没有选择的余地。
  I felt like I had no choice.
• 尽管现在中国人的生活越来越好了，可是还有改进的余地。
  Jǐnguǎn xiànzài Zhōngguórén de shēnghuó yuèláiyuè hǎo le, kěshì háiyǒu gǎijìn de yúdì.
  Although the life of Chinese people is getting better and better now, there is still room for improvement.

Words containing 余地

• 留余地liú yú dìto leave room to maneuver; to leave a margin for error
• 留有余地liú yǒu yú dìto leave some leeway; to allow for the unpredictable
• 回旋余地huí xuán yú dìroom to maneuver; leeway; latitude
• 转圜余地zhuǎn huán yú dìto have room to save a situation; margin for error (idiom)

Sounds the same

Read yú dì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 舆地land; map; (old) geography

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yú dì correctly.
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