"Land" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 dēng lù to land / to come ashore / to make landfall (of typhoon etc) / to log in (frequently used erroneous variant of 登錄|登录[deng1 lu4])
 tǔ dì land / soil / territory / CL:片[pian4],塊|块[kuai4]
 jiàng luò to descend / to land
 luò xià to fall / to drop / to land (of projectile)
 luò dì to fall to the ground / to be set on the ground / to reach to the ground / to be born / (of a plane) to land
 zhuó lù landing / touchdown / to land / to touch down
 dì earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:片[pian4]
 rǎng tǔ (agriculture) loam / (literary) land / territory
 tiān xià land under heaven / the whole world / the whole of China / realm / rule
 miàn jī area (of a floor, piece of land etc) / surface area / tract of land
 xiàn rù to sink into / to get caught up in / to land in (a predicament)
 guó tǔ country's territory / national land
 gēng dì arable land / to plow land
 Sī tú minister of land and people (in ancient times)
 shèng dì holy land (of a religion) / sacred place / shrine / holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc) / center of historic interest
 lù dì dry land (as opposed to the sea)
 Xiāng gé lǐ lā Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon" / a paradise on earth / Shangri-La, a county-level city in Yunnan that takes its name from the fictional land of the 1933 novel
 zhuāng yuán manor / feudal land / villa and park
 nóng tián farmland / cultivated land
 Tiān fǔ Heavenly province (epithet of Sichuan, esp. area around Chengdu) / land of plenty
 dì kuài parcel of land / (geology) massif
 zhēng dì to requisition land
 kòng dì vacant land / open space
 mù chǎng pasture / grazing land / ranch
 tián yě field / open land / CL:片[pian4]
 píng dì to level the land / level ground / plain
 dì shuì local tax (abbr. for 地方稅|地方税[di4fang1shui4]) / land tax (abbr. for 土地稅|土地税[tu3di4shui4])
 Jìng tǔ (Buddhism) Pure Land, usually refers to Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss (Sukhavati in Sanskrit)
 huàn jìng land of fantasy / fairyland
 yì yù foreign country / alien land
 tā xiāng foreign land / away from one's native place
 yì xiāng foreign land / a place far from home
 Guó tǔ Zī yuán bù Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR), formed in 1998
 xiāng tǔ native soil / one's native land / one's hometown / local (to an area)
 dì léi land mine (CL:顆|颗[ke1]) / (fig.) sore point / weak spot
 shuǐ cǎo aquatic plants / water and grass (i.e. favorable foraging land for livestock or wild animals) / (Malaysia) (coll.) drinking straw
 dì lì favorable location / in the right place / productivity of land
 mèng xiāng the land of dreams / slumberland
 Shǎn běi Shanbei, northern Shaanxi province, including Yulin 榆林 / and Yan'an 延安, a Holy Land of Mao's revolution 革命聖地|革命圣地
 tǔ dì zī yuán land resources
 lù shàng land-based / on land
 tǔ dì lì yòng land utilization
 shuǐ lù water and land / by water and land (transport) / amphibian / delicacies from land and sea
 shā dì sandy beach or river bank / sand dune / sandy land
 tǔ dì guǎn lǐ land management
退 tuì gēng huán lín restoring agricultural land to forest
退 tuì gēng huán lín restoring agricultural land to forest
 zhòng dì to farm / to work the land
 huāng dì wasteland / uncultivated land
 táo huā yuán the Peach Blossom Spring, a hidden land of peace and prosperity / utopia
 kāi huāng to open up land (for agriculture)
 kāi huāng to open up land (for agriculture)
使  land use
 dì pí lot / section of land / ground
 fēng yú full-bodied / well-rounded / fig. fertile land
 lù lù land route / overland route
 qǐ jiàng (of aircraft) to take off and land
 wò tǔ fertile land
 fú dì happy land / paradise
 liáng tián good agricultural land / fertile land
 mù qū grazing land / pasture
 hǎi nèi the whole world / throughout the land / everything under the sun
 wù nóng farming / to work the land
 tà zú to set foot on (a foreign land etc) / to tread / (fig.) to enter (a new sphere)
 gēng dì miàn jī area of arable land
 pò jiàng to force a plane to land
 fēng dì feudal fiefdom / land held as a vassal in feudal society / enfeoffment
 wáng fǎ the law / the law of the land / the law of a state (in former times) / criterion
 hǎi lù kòng sea land air (transport, or military operations)
 dì zū land rent / land tax
 hǎi lù sea and land
 cǎo mǎng a rank growth of grass / uncultivated land / wilderness
 qián liáng land tax / money and grain (given as tax or tribute)
 fù nóng rich peasant / social class of people farming their own land, intermediate between land-owner class 地主[di4 zhu3] and poor peasant 貧農|贫农[pin2 nong2]
 bāo zū to rent / to charter / to rent land or a house for subletting / fixed rent for farmland
 Píng chuān an expanse of flat land
 shú dì cultivated land / in Chinese medicine, preparation from rhizome of Chinese foxglove (Rehmannia glutinosa)
 mǎn shān biàn yě covering the whole land / over hills and dales
 yú mǐ zhī xiāng (lit.) land of fish and rice / (fig.) fertile region / land of milk and honey
 tǔ gǎi land reform (abbr. for 土地改革[tu3di4 gai3ge2])
 jūn qí land battle chess, Chinese board game similar to Stratego
 tǔ dì gǎi gé land reform
 tián jiān guǎn lǐ land management
 lù yùn land transport
 bá shān shè shuǐ to travel over land and water (idiom)
 tuò huāng to open up land (for agriculture)
 yuán zhǒng land race / native breed
 yī mǎ píng chuān flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom) / wide expanse of flat country
 Tiān fǔ zhī guó land of plenty (usu. used in reference to Sichuan)
 pín xià zhōng nóng (category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants)
 zū shuì taxation / in former times, esp. land tax
 píng dì jī land grader / road grader
 bù máo zhī dì (idiom) barren land / desert
 shè (bound form) society / organization / agency / (old) god of the land
 kěn huāng to open up land (for agriculture)
 wéi kěn to reclaim land by diking
 zhuāng jia dì crop land / arable land
 wò yě fertile land
鸿 āi hóng biàn yě lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom) / fig. land swarming with disaster victims / starving people fill the land
 tún kěn to garrison troops to open up land
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