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- -ly
- structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
Trad. 聖地
- holy land (of a religion)
- sacred place
- shrine
- holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc)
- center of historic interest
Trad. 隨地
- according to the location
- everywhere
- any place
- from any location
- from wherever you like
- the 12 earthly branches 子[zi3], 丑[chou3], 寅[yin2], 卯[mao3], 辰[chen2], 巳[si4], 午[wu3], 未[wei4], 申[shen1], 酉[you3], 戌[xu1], 亥[hai4], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
Trad. 內地
- mainland China (PRC excluding Hong Kong and Macau, but including islands such as Hainan)
- Japan (used in Taiwan during Japanese colonization)
- stage; degree (to which a situation has evolved)
- a (usu. bad) situation
- leeway
- to fall to the ground
- to be set on the ground
- to reach to the ground
- to be born
- (of a plane) to land
- sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
- yam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus)
- (TCM) digua fig (Ficus tikoua Bur.)
- Earthly Sovereign, one of the three legendary sovereigns 三皇[san1 huang2]
- (used to form an adverbial phrase X + 似地[shi4 de5]) like (X); as if (X)
- Taiwan pr. [si4de5]
Trad. 地盤
- domain
- territory under one's control
- foundation of a building
- base of operations
- crust of earth
- cultivated land
- in Chinese medicine, preparation from rhizome of Chinese foxglove (Rehmannia glutinosa)
- (in) the original place
- the place where one currently is
- place of origin
- local (product)
Trad. 地稅
- local tax (abbr. for 地方稅|地方税[di4 fang1 shui4])
- land tax (abbr. for 土地稅|土地税[tu3 di4 shui4])
- to go down to the fields
- to get up from bed
- to leave one's sickbed
- to be born
Trad. 地脈
- geographical position according to the principles of feng shui 風水|风水[feng1 shui3]
- ley lines
- Kṣitigarbha, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi)
- also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
- location of political, economic, military, or cultural importance (usu. not open to the general public); sensitive area
Trad. 掃地
- to sweep the floor
- (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom
- to be at an all-time low
- to clean the floor
- (Internet slang) (lit.) to wash (the blood) off the floor
- (fig.) to cover up evidence of sb's wrongdoing
- to defend (a wrongdoer)
- (coll.) to carpet-bomb
Trad. 寶地
- blessed land; a place rich in beauty or natural resources etc
- (term of respect) your place
Trad. 地黃
- Chinese foxglove (Rehmannia glutinosa), its rhizome used in TCM