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地方

dì fāng

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

地方 (dì fāng) means "place; location". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 地方 means

1. region
2. regional (away from the central administration)
3. local

Other readings

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

• dì fangplace; location; area; space; territory; aspect; part

The characters in 地方

• 地dìearth; ground; field
• 方fāngsquare; power or involution (math.); upright

Example sentences

• 什么地方
  Shénmedìfang
  What place?
• 这是什么地方
  What is this place?
• 腾一下地方。
  Move over.
• 你想去什么地方
  Where would you like to go?
• 这是什么地方?
  Where am I?
• 我在找地方坐。
  I'm looking for a place to sit.

Words starting with 地方

• 地方性dì fāng xìnglocal
• 地方官dì fāng guānlocal official
• 地方主义dì fāng zhǔ yìregionalism; favoring one's local region
• 地方自治dì fāng zì zhìlocal autonomy; home rule
• 地方法院dì fāng fǎ yuàncounty court; district court
• 地方戏dì fāng xìlocal Chinese opera, such as Shaoxing opera 越剧
• 地方戏曲dì fāng xì qǔlocal Chinese opera, such as Shaoxing opera 越剧
• 地方性斑疹伤寒dì fāng xìng bān zhěn shāng hánmurine typhus fever

Words containing 地方

• 老地方lǎo dì fāngsame place as before; usual place; stomping ground
• 占地方zhàn dì fangto take up space
• 近畿地方Jìn jī dì fāngthe Kinki region of Japan, aka the Kansai region, with cities including Kyoto, Osaka and…
• 什么地方shén me dì fangsomewhere; someplace; where

Where 地方 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Travel & Transport (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dì fāng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.