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陆地

lù dì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 陸地

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

What 陆地 means

1. dry land (as opposed to the sea)

The characters in 陆地

• 陆lù(bound form) land (as opposed to the sea)
• 地dìearth; ground; field

Example sentences

• 地球是由海洋和陆地组成的。
  Dìqiú shì yóu hǎiyáng hé lùdì zǔchéng de.
  The earth is made up of sea and land.
• 据说鲸鱼以前是在陆地上生活的。
  Jùshuō jīngyú yǐqián shì zài lùdì shàng shēnghuó de.
  Whales are said to have lived on land long ago.
• 地球的表面约有三分之一是陆地。
  Dìqiú de biǎomiàn yuē yǒu sānfēnzhīyī shì lùdì.
  About one third of the earth's surface is land.
• 中国陆地的总面积是960万平方公里，是亚洲面积最大的国家，居世界第三位。
  Zhōngguó lùdì de zǒng miànjī shì 960 wàn píngfānggōnglǐ, shì Yàzhōu miànjī zuì dà de guójiā, jū shìjiè dìsānwèi.
  The mainland of China covers 96,000,000 square kilometers, and it is the largest country in Asia, as well as the third largest in the world.

Where 陆地 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Nature, Landscape & Wild Animals (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 lù dì correctly.
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