Zi:地
地 [dì] earth (土地 ‘land/soil’; 地球 ‘earth/globe’; 地图 ‘map’; 地点 ‘place/site’) [de] (adv. part.) -ly (忽地 ‘suddenly’)
2 monosyllabic entries in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►²de 地 {A} s.p. (adv.-forming, like English -ly) ‖ hěn kuài ∼ 很快∼ very quickly
►²dì 地 {A} n. ①the earth ②land; soil ③fields ④ground ◆b.f. ①place ►dìfāng 地方 ②position ►¹dìwèi 地位 ③background ④distance ‖ Wǒmen xuéxiào lí zhèr yǒu sān zhàn ∼. 我们学校离这儿有三站∼。 Our school is three bus stops from here.
The Shuōwén Seal form of 地 dì ‘earth’ combines 土 (tǔ) ‘earth’, and 也 yě ‘female/pudenda’ (phonosemantic): 太极 ‘the great ultimate union of extremes’ (☯) divides into 阳/陽 yáng ‘male/clear/bright/light/heavens’ (⚊), and 阴/陰 yīn ‘female/muddy/dark/heavy/earth’ (⚋), and from their combination arise all of the myriad things; hence, 也 yě ‘female/pudenda’ is the component in 地 dì ‘earth’ (☷); formerly also wr. 墬(𡓬𡒰), with 𧰲 chǐ/chí (phonetic), as in 㥟(𢞶), and 蠡.
Note: If 也 yě seems like a poor phonetic in 地 dì today, this is because over thousands of years the pronunciations gradually diverged; a thousand years ago the rhymes were rather similar, and more than a thousand years before that the difference may have been something like 地 [dʰia], vs. 也 [dʲa] (GSR), or 也 /ljAj/ vs. 地 /lrjajs/ (Baxter).
HDZ: 地 : dì : 大地, 地面 (ant. 天) (天地, 地质, 地磁, 地震); 陆地 (高地, 地洞); 田土 (地产, 地租, 盐碱地); 疆土; 地点, 处所 (发祥地, 策源地, 根据地, 目的地); 地区 (内地, 各地, 殖民地); 心意活动的领域 (见地, 识地, 心地); 地位; 位置, 地盘; 路程; 质地, 底子; (简称) 地区 (地委; 省、地、县); (简称) 地主 (地、富、反、坏); (副词) 权且 • de : (助词) (… (科学地论证, 谦虚地表示); 着)
►references: Guǎngyùn:355.27; Henshall:167; Karlgren:AD223,GSR4b'; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.420.12; Mathews:6198; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:224.06; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:023.1.03; EDOC:1
►components: 土也
►Cantonese: deih-
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