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地下

dìxià

underground

A tunnel under the ground
Memory picture

Characters in this word

地 de

Strokes
6
Radical
土 — soil, earth
Made of
土 soil, earth 也 also, too
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

下 xià

Strokes
3
Radical
一 — one
Made of
一 one 卜 divination, fortune-telling
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 车在地下。 Chē zài dìxià. The car is underground.
  • 地下很冷。 Dìxià hěn lěng. It is cold underground.
  • 地下室很大。 Dìxiàshì hěn dà. The basement is very big.

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