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地方

Mandarin · pinyin dì fāng#

region
regional (away from the central administration)
local

Mandarin · pinyin dì fang#

place; location; area; space; territory
aspect; part
Classifier: 處 chù

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地: de · dì · earth; soil, ground; region
方: fāng · a square, rectangle; a region; local

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4–1 · di4 fang1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

dei6 fong1

Cantonese word readings for 地方. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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noun

(countable, uncountable) place; region; area (Classifier: 個／个 m; 笪 c)
(countable, uncountable) part; location
(countable, uncountable) part; aspect; something (about something) (Classifier: 個／个 m)
(uncountable) empty space; room
(countable, literary) town crier
(countable, historical) An administrative division of the Republic of China prior to 1949, equivalent to an autonomous region.

noun

(uncountable) civilians; civilian jobs; civilian sector
(uncountable) people, officials, services outside a certain nation-wide system or organisation

adj

(attributive) regional; local; outside a certain nation-wide system or organisation

noun

(Hengyang Xiang) doorstep; sill; threshold

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