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地区

dì qū 4–1

local; regional; district (not necessarily formal administrative unit); region; area; as suffix to city name, means prefecture or county (area administered by a prefecture-level city or, county-level city)

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
地 · 区
Syllables
2
dì qū
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,123

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 地de6 strokesHSK 1earth; soil, ground; region
  • 区qū4 strokesHSK 3 traditional 區area, district, region, ward

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 地区. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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