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地 — stroke order
Watch how to write 地 (de) stroke by stroke. 地 has 6 strokes and means “adverbial particle”. It appears in common words such as 地址 (address) and 地方 (region). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Pronunciation and meaning in context
The neutral-tone reading de links an adverbial expression to the action it modifies. The same character is read dì when it means ground or land, as in 地方 (dìfāng, place). Dictionary readings (CC-CEDICT)
Common words with 地
The most common words that use 地 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
How 地 is written
- Radical
- 土
- Components
- 土 ＋ 也
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 土 and a phonetic component 也 (earth).