人地

Chinese

Etymology 1

		man; person; people	earth; ground; field earth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); ‑ly
trad. (人地)		人	地
simp. #(人地)		人	地

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): réndì

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄣˊ ㄉㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jan⁴ dei⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: réndì
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄣˊ ㄉㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: réndì
    • Wade–Giles: jên²-ti⁴
    • Yale: rén-dì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rendih
    • Palladius: жэньди (žɛnʹdi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐən³⁵ ti⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jan⁴ dei⁶
    • Yale: yàhn deih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jan⁴ dei⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yen⁴ déi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐn²¹ tei̯²²/

Noun

人地

1. (literary) local people and conditions
2. (literary) social status of one's family

Synonyms

• (social status of one's family):

• 門地／门地 (méndì)
• 門戶／门户 (ménhù) (figurative)
• 門楣／门楣 (ménméi)
• 門第／门第 (méndì)
• 門頭／门头 (méntóu) (literary, figurative)

 

Derived terms

• 人地生疏 (réndìshēngshū)

 

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 人地 – see 人哋 (“others; someone else; etc.”). (This term is a variant form of 人哋).