earth in Chinese

How to write 地球

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地球 is listed in the official HSK vocabulary at HSK 4. An upper-intermediate band covering a wider range of everyday and work topics.

地球 in a sentence

• 地dì球qiú绕rào着zhe太tài阳yáng转zhuǎn。

  The Earth goes around the sun.

• 我wǒ们men要yào保bǎo护hù地dì球qiú。

  We should protect the Earth.

• 地dì球qiú上shàng有yǒu很hěn多duō国guó家jiā。

  There are many countries on Earth.

地球 vs 世界 vs 大地

Similar and easily confused words, and how they differ.

• 世界 shì jiè world

  地球 = the physical planet; 世界 = the human world — 世界和平 'world peace' uses 世界, not 地球.

• 大地 dà dì the earth; the land

  Literary 'the great land' — 春回大地 'spring returns to the land'. Not the planet as a globe.