地球

地球 dìqiú in a sentence

Earth (planet)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 8 sentences

地球 (dìqiú) means Earth (planet). Below are 8 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

我们应该保护 地球 。

Wǒmen yīnggāi bǎohù dìqiú.

We should protect the Earth.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 地球

地球 是我们共同的家。

Dìqiú shì wǒmen gòngtóng de jiā.

The Earth is our shared home.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 地球

月亮围绕 地球 转。

Yuèliang wéirào dìqiú zhuàn.

The moon revolves around the earth.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 围绕

地球 上陆地比海洋少。

Dìqiú shàng lùdì bǐ hǎiyáng shǎo.

There is less land than sea on the earth.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 陆地

月亮是 地球 的天然卫星。

Yuèliang shì dìqiú de tiānrán wèixīng.

The moon is the earth's natural satellite.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 卫星

地球 绕着自己的轴旋转。

Dìqiú ràozhe zìjǐ de zhóu xuánzhuǎn.

The earth rotates on its own axis.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 旋转

地球 上的淡水资源非常有限。

Dìqiú shang de dànshuǐ zīyuán fēicháng yǒuxiàn.

The earth's fresh-water resources are very limited.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 淡水

地球 绕太阳沿椭圆轨道运行。

Dìqiú rào tàiyáng yán tuǒyuán guǐdào yùnxíng.

The earth travels round the sun in an elliptical orbit.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 椭圆

Reading these is one thing; producing 地球 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.

Questions about 地球

How is 地球 used in a sentence?

This page shows 8 sentences using 地球 (dìqiú, "Earth (planet)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 地球 an HSK word?

Yes — 地球 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 地球?

The dictionary page for 地球 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

Keep going

Read the full entry for 地球, write a sentence of your own and check it in the Pinyin Annotator, drill it with HSK 4 flashcards, or search the whole sentence bank for another word.

Another word

Chinese, pinyin or English. Tone marks optional.