地方

Chinese

 
earth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); ‑ly
 
square; quadrilateral; place; region; direction; side; method; way; prescription; power; upright; just
simp. and trad.
(地方)

Pronunciation 1


Note:
  • tē-hng/tōe-hng - colloquial;
  • tē-hong/tōe-hong - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 2/2
Initial () (7) (1)
Final () (15) (106)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/diɪH/ /pʉɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/diH/ /pʷiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/djɪH/ /piuɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/diH/ /puaŋ/
Li
Rong
/diH/ /piuaŋ/
Wang
Li
/diH/ /pĭwaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱiH/ /piwaŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fāng

Noun

地方

  1. (countable, uncountable) place; region; area (Classifier: m;  c)
    一個陌生地方 / 一个陌生地方   yīge mòshēng de dìfang   an unfamiliar place
  2. (countable, uncountable) part; location
    這個地方 [MSC, trad.]
    这个地方 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ zhège dìfang yǒu diǎn téng. [Pinyin]
    I've got a pain here (lit.: in this place).
  3. (countable, uncountable) part; aspect; something (about something) (Classifier: m)
  4. (uncountable) empty space; room
    騰出地方 / 腾出地方   téngchū dìfang   to make room
  5. (countable, literary) town crier
Usage notes
  • Unlike Mandarin, 地方 is rarely used in Min Nan. Use 所在 (só͘-chāi) instead.
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 地方 (“place (noun)”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 地方
Mandarin Beijing 地兒, 地方
Taiwan 地方
Tianjin 地界兒, 地兒, 地方
Jinan 地方, 地處
Xi'an 地方
Wuhan 落地, 位子
Chengdu 地方, 地頭, 塌塌
Yangzhou 落地, 地方
Hefei 場子, 地方
Cantonese Guangzhou 地方, 埞方,
Hong Kong 地方, 埞方,
Taishan
Yangjiang 處所
Gan Nanchang 落地
Hakka Meixian 地方
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 地方
Liudui (S. Sixian) 地方
Hsinchu (Hailu) 地方
Dongshi (Dabu) 地方
Hsinchu (Raoping) 地方
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 地方
Jin Taiyuan 地方
Min Bei Jian'ou 地方, 所在
Min Dong Fuzhou 地方, 所在, 位處
Min Nan Xiamen 所在
Quanzhou 所在
Zhangzhou 所在
Taipei 所在
Kaohsiung 所在
Tainan 所在
Taichung 所在, 地方
Hsinchu 所在
Lukang 地方
Sanxia 地方, 所在
Yilan 所在
Kinmen 所在
Magong 所在
Penang 所在
Philippines (Manila) 所在
Chaozhou 地方
Wu Shanghai 地方, 場化 dated, 戶蕩 dated
Suzhou 場化
Wenzhou 地方
Xiang Changsha 地方
Shuangfeng 場所, 地方

Pronunciation 2


Note:
  • tē-hng/tōe-hng - colloquial;
  • tē-hong/tōe-hong - literary.

Noun

地方

  1. (uncountable) civilians; civilian jobs; civilian sector
Antonyms

Adjective

地方

  1. (attributive) regional; local
    布袋戲地方戲劇 [Min Nan, trad.]
    布袋戏地方戏剧 [Min Nan, simp.]
    Pò͘-tē-hì sī chi̍t chióng tē-hng hì-kio̍k. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
    Glove puppetry is a kind of regional theatre.
Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (地方):

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
ほう
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 地方 (MC diɪH pʉɐŋ).

Pronunciation

Noun

地方 (hiragana ちほう, rōmaji chihō, historical hiragana ちはう)

  1. district, province, area

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
  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

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

地方 (jibang) (hangeul 지방)

  1. Hanja form? of 지방 (geographical region).

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word

Noun

地方

  1. Hán tự form of địa phương (region, area).
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