Skip to content
BishuРусскийTrain

地deadverbial suffix

Theme
Grammar
Level
HSK 3
Strokes
6
Syllable
de

How 地 is written

Stroke order matters: it sets the proportions of the character and how a reader will parse it. In the trainer these same boxes reject a stroke drawn out of turn.

地 — 6 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a practice sheet with 地

Examples

请慢慢地说。

Qǐng mànmàn de shuō.

Please speak slowly.

  • 请qǐngto ask
  • 慢mànslow
  • 慢mànslow
  • 地deadverbial suffix
  • 说shuōto speak

孩子高兴地笑了。

Háizi gāoxìng de xiào le.

The child laughed happily.

  • 孩子háizichild
  • 高兴gāoxìnghappy
  • 地deadverbial suffix
  • 笑xiàoto laugh
  • 了lecompleted action marker

Not to be confused with

Characters that look or sound alike. The trainer mixes them into the answer options for exactly that reason — so the difference sticks.

  • 的depossessive particle
  • 大dàbig
  • 读