地

Glyph origin
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Etymology 1
Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬).

Definitions

 * 1) earth
 * 2) ground; floor
 * 3) land; field
 * 4) distance; separation
 * 5) farmland; field
 * 6)  area; region
 * 7) place; locality
 * 8) status; situation; position
 * 9)  state of mind
 * 10) place; room; space
 * 11) background (behind a text or figure)
 * 12)  grave; tomb
 * 13)  prefecture
 * 1) farmland; field
 * 2)  area; region
 * 3) place; locality
 * 4) status; situation; position
 * 5)  state of mind
 * 6) place; room; space
 * 7) background (behind a text or figure)
 * 8)  grave; tomb
 * 9)  prefecture
 * 1) status; situation; position
 * 2)  state of mind
 * 3) place; room; space
 * 4) background (behind a text or figure)
 * 5)  grave; tomb
 * 6)  prefecture
 * 1) place; room; space
 * 2) background (behind a text or figure)
 * 3)  grave; tomb
 * 4)  prefecture
 * 1) background (behind a text or figure)
 * 2)  grave; tomb
 * 3)  prefecture
 * 1)  grave; tomb
 * 2)  prefecture
 * 1)  grave; tomb
 * 2)  prefecture
 * 1)  prefecture

Descendants
Others:

Etymology 2
Possibly the same word as, the possessive marker , but scholars like and  are hesitant about this etymology.

Alternatively, proposes that it is a grammaticalization of etymology 1. The construction ADJ + 地 would have semantically developed as follows: "a ADJ place" → "in a ADJ place" → "in a ADJ manner".

Usage notes

 * The use of this particle is always optional after polysyllabic adverbs.
 * On the contrary, monosyllabic adverbs are compulsorily used with or without 地.
 * (where *很地漂亮 is unacceptable)
 * (where *倏不見 is unacceptable in Modern Standard Chinese)
 * However, there is an exception:
 * (where *倏不見 is unacceptable in Modern Standard Chinese)
 * However, there is an exception:

Usage notes

 * This suffix is accompanied by a tone change in the reduplicated word, where the second occurrence is changed to the second tone (unless its original tone is the first or second tone), as seen in the examples above.

Kanji

 * 1) earth; ground

Etymology 1
From. The goon reading, so likely the initial borrowing. Compare modern 🇨🇬 dì.

Noun

 * 1) earth, dirt
 * 2) fabric, cloth
 * 3)  territory
 * 1)  territory
 * 1)  territory

Etymology 2
From. The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing. The devoicing of the initial consonant might indicate a dialectal source. Compare modern 🇨🇬 thi, 🇨🇬 tī.

Noun

 * 1) earth, land, ground
 * 2) a place, a region, a piece of land
 * 3) territory, dominion
 * 4)  the bottom
 * 5)  the bottom margin

Suffix

 * 1) place, area

Etymology 3
From.

Noun

 * 1) earth, dirt, mud, soil
 * 2) the ground
 * 3) the earth
 * 4) the ground or bottom of something

Etymology
From.