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地球

dì qiú 4–2

the earth

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
地 · 球
Syllables
2
dì qiú
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,971

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 地de6 strokesHSK 1earth; soil, ground; region
  • 球qiú11 strokesHSK 1ball, sphere, globe; round

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

Example sentences

  • 今天是地球日。

    Jīn tiān shì dì qiú rì

    Today is Earth day.

  • 地球是我们的家。

    Dì qiú shì wǒ men de jiā

    The Earth is our home.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

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

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