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地球

dì qiú

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

地球 (dì qiú) means "the earth". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 地球 means

1. the earth

The characters in 地球

• 地dìearth; ground; field
• 球qiúball used for playing games (variant of 球

Example sentences

• 地球出现了。
  Earth appeared.
• 地球比太阳小。
  The earth is smaller than the sun.
• 今天是地球日。
  Today is Earth day.
• 地球上有七大洲。
  There are seven continents on the earth.
• 月球围着地球转。
  The moon moves around the earth.
• 地球是一个行星。
  Earth is a planet.

Words starting with 地球

• 地球村dì qiú cūnglobal village
• 地球仪dì qiú yíglobe
• 地球化学dì qiú huà xuégeochemistry
• 地球物理dì qiú wù lǐgeophysics
• 地球科学dì qiú kē xuéearth science
• 地球物理学dì qiú wù lǐ xuégeophysics
• 地球同步卫星dì qiú tóng bù wèi xīng(astronomy) geosynchronous satellite
• 地球静止卫星dì qiú jìng zhǐ wèi xīng(astronomy) geostationary satellite
• 地球磁场dì qiú cí chǎngearth's magnetic field
• 地球轨道dì qiú guǐ dàoEarth orbit (orbit of a satellite around the Earth)…
• 地球同步轨道dì qiú tóng bù guǐ dào(astronomy) geosynchronous orbit
• 地球静止轨道dì qiú jìng zhǐ guǐ dào(astronomy) geostationary orbit

Words containing 地球

• 火星撞地球Huǒ xīng zhuàng Dì qiúclash that leaves both sides shattered
• 中国地球物理学会Zhōng guó Dì qiú Wù lǐ Xué huìChinese Geophysical Society
• 八十天环游地球Bā shí Tiān Huán yóu Dì qiúAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 儒勒·儒勒·凡尔纳

Where 地球 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Geography & places (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dì qiú correctly.
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