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土地

tǔ dì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 片、块

土地 (tǔ dì) means "land". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 土地 means

1. land
2. soil
3. territory

Other readings

土地 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• tǔ dilocal god; genius loci

The characters in 土地

• 土tǔearth; dust; clay
• 地dìearth; ground; field

Example sentences

• 我的土地紧靠河边。
  My land abuts on the river.
• 让土地闲置着很浪费。
  Ràng tǔdì xiánzhì zhe hěn làngfèi.
  It's wasteful to leave the land lying idle.
• 乔治被骗买了这块土地。
  Qiáozhì bèi piàn mǎi le zhè kuài tǔdì.
  George was tricked into buying the land.
• 他农场的土地十分肥沃。
  Tā nóngchǎng de tǔdì shífēn féiwò.
  The land on his farm is very fertile.
• 他买土地目的是要造房子。
  He bought the land for the purpose of building a house on it.
• 他的农场的土地十分肥沃。
  The land on his farm is very fertile.

Words starting with 土地

• 土地改革tǔ dì gǎi géland reform
• 土地公Tǔ dì GōngTudi Gong, the local tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion)
• 土地资源tǔ dì zī yuánland resources
• 土地利用规划tǔ dì lì yòng guī huàland use plan (official P.R.C. government term)
• 土地神Tǔ dì Shénlocal tutelary god (in Chinese folk religion) (same as 土地公

Words containing 土地

• 黄土地貌huáng tǔ dì màoloess landform

Where 土地 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Land, Regions & Comparisons (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tǔ dì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.