Chinese symbol for “land”
土地
tǔ dì
land; soil; territory; measure word: 片 (piàn), 块 (kuài)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for land is 土地 (tǔ dì), defined as: land; soil; territory; measure word: 片 (piàn), 块 (kuài).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “land”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 登陆 (登陸) | dēng lù | to land; to come ashore |
| 陆 (陸) | lù | (bound form) land (as opposed to the sea) |
| 地 | dì | earth; ground |
| 降落 | jiàng luò | to descend; to land |
| 舆地 (輿地) | yú dì | land; map |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 土地.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 领土 (領土) | lǐng tǔ | territory |
| 本土 | běn tǔ | one's native country; native |
| 土壤 | tǔ rǎng | soil |
| 国土 (國土) | guó tǔ | country's territory; national land |
| 地区 (地區) | dì qū | region; area (informal or geographical term); prefecture (in China's administrative system) |
| 地方 | dì fāng | region; regional (away from the central administration) |
| 当地 (當地) | dāng dì | local |
See also: Japanese symbol for “land”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.