land, continent; six (used in financial contexts)

Animated Stroke Order 陆

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Stroke Order Diagrams 陆

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Example Sentences

Real-world example sentences demonstrating how is used in context
1
jūn
duì
chéng
gōng
dēng
le
ge
dǎo
屿

The army successfully landed on that island.

2
qiú
biǎo
miàn
fen
shì

Most of the Earth's surface is land.

3
xué
shēng
men
zǒu
jìn
jiào
shì

The students entered the classroom one after another.

4
hěn

The land is very big.

5
shēng
huó
zài
shuǐ
zhōng
niǎo
shēng
huó
zài
shàng

Fish live in water, and birds live on land.

6
qiú
biǎo
miàn
fèn
shì
hǎi
yáng
zhǐ
yǒu
yuē
2
9
%
shì

Most of the Earth's surface is ocean, with only about 29% being land.

7
chūn
tiān
lái
le
huā
ér
kāi
fàng

Spring has arrived, and the flowers are blooming one after another.

8
suí
zhe
xiàng
jìn
zhǎn
tuán
duì
chéng
yuán
jiāo
le
bào
gào

As the project progressed, team members submitted their reports one after another.

9
dēng
le
diàn
nǎo

I logged into the computer.

10
míng
tiān
men
yào
dēng
ge
xiǎo
dǎo
tàn
xiǎn

Tomorrow we will land on that small island to explore.

Information

Traditional
Radical
Strokes7
StructureLeft-Right
Frequency#1506
Zhuyinㄌㄨˋ
Components
UnicodeU+9646
CangjieNQMW
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Cultural note

Traditional Chinese culture often connects characters and names with the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) and Yin–Yang, a system also used to describe personality tendencies.

Learn how the Five Elements describe personality