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地形

dìxíng

terrain

A landscape with hills and valley
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

形 xíng

Strokes
7
Radical
彡 — hair
Made of
开 to open 彡 hair
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
More about the character 形

Example phrases

  • 这里地形复杂。 Zhèlǐ dìxíng fùzá. The terrain here is complex.
  • 地形很平。 Dìxíng hěn píng. The terrain is very flat.
  • 老师讲地形。 Lǎoshī jiǎng dìxíng. The teacher talks about terrain.

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