Pinyin: de

adverbial particle

Example sentence

他高兴地笑了。

Tā gāoxìng de xiào le.

He smiled happily.

What 地 means

(de) is an Chinese word meaning “adverbial particle”. It belongs to the Grammar Words topic and appears at HSK 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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HSK 3

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