Chinese Word Detail

Remove Adverts
What is this page showing me?

地質學

dei6 zat1 hok6

di4 zhi2 xue2

geology

Level: 3
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

地質學

This word was added by bybell on 2nd Jul 2006 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008

Sponsors: One-on-One Online Chinese Tutoring | Classic Games | Chinese Language
Learn Spanish | Free satellite TV | Studying in China

地 dei6 dei6*2 dei2 di4 de5 de1 - earth; land; soil
質 zat1 zi3 zhi4 zhi2 - matter, elements; hostage; texture
學 hok6 xue2 xiao2 jiao4 - learn

Forum Code to link to this word:
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/24543/]地質學[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/24543/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">地質學</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 地質學

Search CantoDict (safe search is on)

Please note, CantoDict currently supports searching for Simplified Chinese, but results will be returned in Traditional Chinese.

Hide Written and Spoken Hide Written 國 Hide Spoken粵

This page shows, from top to bottom:

a large version of the word in a traditional script font which you may need to install

: the Cantonese pronunciation of the word in jyutping.

: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin (only if present).

the meaning of the word, typed in by our volunteer editors
guidelines on whether the word can only be used in Spoken Cantonese etc (if nothing is present the word may be used in both Cantonese and Mandarin)
our arbitrarily assigned difficulty level
a smaller version of the character in a computerised, printed font
a list of each of the characters for the word, showing jyutping and meaning (if our dictionary contains that character)

this thread