地deadverbial suffix
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.
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.