地理

地理

Chinese

		earth; ground; field earth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); ‑ly	to manage; to heed; to put in order to manage; to heed; to put in order; reason; logic; science; inner principle or structure
simp. and trad. (地理)		地	理

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dìlǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧˋ ㄌㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dei⁶ lei⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thi-lî
• Min Dong (BUC): dê-lī
• Min Nan (POJ): tē-lí / tōe-lí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: dìlǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧˋ ㄌㄧˇ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dihlii
    • IPA ^(key): /ti⁵¹ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dei⁶ lei⁵
    • Yale: deih léih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dei⁶ lei⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: déi⁶ léi⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /tei̯²² lei̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thi-lî
    • Hakka Romanization System: ti li´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ti⁴ li¹
    • IPA: /tʰi⁵⁵ li²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dê-lī
    • IPA ^(key): /ti²⁴²⁻⁵³ l̃i³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tē-lí
    • Tâi-lô: tē-lí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dexlie
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /te⁴¹⁻²² li⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /te²²⁻²¹ li⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /te³³⁻²¹ li⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōe-lí
    • Tâi-lô: tuē-lí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doexlie
    • IPA (Taipei): /tue³³⁻¹¹ li⁵³/

Noun

地理

1. geography

   地理信息工程  ―  dìlǐ xìnxī gōngchéng  ―  geographic information engineering

2. geographical features; topography
3. (literary) address
4. (chiefly dialectal Mandarin, Hakka, Min) fengshui

Adjective

地理

1. (attributive) geographical

   地理位置  ―  dìlǐ wèizhì  ―  geographical location

Derived terms

地理學／地理学 (dìlǐxué)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
地	理
ち Grade: 2	り Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ち​り [chíꜜrì] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕiɾʲi]

Noun

地理 (hiragana ちり, rōmaji chiri)

1. geography

   abbreviation for 地理学(ちりがく, chirigaku)

2. geographical features; topography

Related terms

• 地勢 (ちせい, chisei)

References

1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word
地	理

Noun

地理

1. Hán tự form of địa lý (“geography”).