旱地 (hàn de) — dry land; non-irrigated farmland

Definition

noun
dry landnon-irrigated farmland
Measure word · 块

Examples

  • 旱地，。
    Zhè ge dì fāng shì hàn de, bù néng zhǒng shuǐ dào.
    This place is dry land; you can't grow rice here.
  • 旱地。
    Nóng mín zài hàn de shàng zhǒng le yù mǐ.
    Farmers planted corn on the dry land.
  • 旱地。
    Tā jiā de hàn de jīn nián shōu cheng hěn hǎo.
    The dry land of his family had a good harvest this year.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

旱hàndry
地dìland

旱 means dry and 地 means land, so it denotes dry, non-irrigated land.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
土土tǔearth
Sound part声符shēngfú
也
也yě地dì
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

地 is built from 土 (earth) and 也, which gives its sound.

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