| 十二地支 | shí èr dì zhī | the 12 earthly branches 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers) |
| 南充地区 | Nán chōng dì qū | Nanchong prefecture in Sichuan |
| 南宁地区 | Nán níng dì qū | Nanning prefecture in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in south China 广西壮族自治区 |
| 南平地区 | Nán píng dì qū | Nanping district (old term); since 1983, Nanping county level city, Fujian |
| 南通地区 | Nán tōng dì qū | Nantong prefecture in Jiangsu |
| 南阳地区 | Nán yáng dì qū | Nanyang prefecture in Henan |
| 占主导地位 | zhàn zhǔ dǎo dì wèi | dominant; predominant; to occupy a leading position |
| 占地 | zhàn dì | to take up space; to occupy (space) |
| 占地儿 | zhàn dìr | to take up space |
| 占地方 | zhàn dì fang | to take up space |
| 印地安纳 | Yìn dì ān nà | Indiana, US state |
| 印地安纳州 | Yìn dì ān nà zhōu | Indiana, US state |
| 印地语 | Yìn dì yǔ | Hindi (language) |
| 危地马拉人 | Wēi dì mǎ lā rén | Guatemalan (person) |
| 即时即地 | jí shí jí dì | moment-to-moment |
| 卷地皮 | juǎn dì pí | to plunder the land and extort from the peasant; corrupt practice |
| 原地踏步 | yuán dì tà bù | to mark time (military); to make no headway |
| 原产地 | yuán chǎn dì | original source; place of origin; provenance |
| 友谊地久天长 | Yǒu yì dì jiǔ tiān cháng | Auld Lang Syne, Scottish song with lyrics by Robert Burns 罗伯特・伯恩斯[Luo2 bo2 te4 · Bo2 en1 si1], sung to mark the start of a new year or as a farewell; also rendered 友谊万岁 or 友谊天长地久 |
| 友谊天长地久 | Yǒu yì tiān cháng dì jiǔ | Auld Lang Syne; see 友谊地久天长 |
| 受灾地区 | shòu zāi dì qū | disaster area |
| 古地磁 | gǔ dì cí | paleomagnetism |
| 可耕地 | kě gēng dì | cultivable |
| 台州地区 | Tái zhōu dì qū | Taizhou prefecture, Zhejiang |
| 吉安地区 | Jí ān dì qū | Ji'an prefecture in Jiangxi |
| 名誉扫地 | míng yù sǎo dì | to be thoroughly discredited; to fall into disrepute |
| 吐鲁番地区 | Tǔ lǔ fān dì qū | Turpan prefecture in Xinjiang |
| 吐鲁番盆地 | tǔ lǔ fān pén dì | the Turpan depression in Xinjiang |
| 向北地 | xiàng běi dì | northward |
| 周口地区 | Zhōu kǒu dì qū | Zhoukou prefecture in Henan |
| 和田地区 | Hé tián dì qū | Hoten Wilayiti; Khotan prefecture in Xinjiang |
| 咸宁地区 | Xián níng dì qū | Xianning prefecture in Hubei |
| 咸阳地区 | Xián yáng dì qū | Xianyang prefecture, Shaanxi |
| 哀伤地 | āi shāng de | pathetically |
| 哈密地区 | Hā mì dì qū | Kumul prefecture in Xinjiang |
| 唐山地区 | Táng shān dì qū | Tangshan county (old name) |
| 唐山大地震 | Táng shān dà dì zhèn | the great Tangshan earthquake of 27th July 1976 that killed more than 650,000 people |
| 商丘地区 | Shāng qiū dì qū | Shangqiu prefecture in Henan |
| 喀什地区 | Kā shí dì qū | Qeshqer wilayiti, Kashgar or Kāshí prefecture in west Xinjiang near Kyrgyzstan |
| 喀斯特地貌 | kā sī tè dì mào | karst landform (weathered limestone, often forming caves) |
| 嘉兴地区 | Jiā xīng dì qū | Jiaxing prefecture, Zhejiang |
| 四大盆地 | sì dà pén dì | four great basin depressions of China, namely: Tarim 塔里木盆地 in south Xinjiang, Jungar 准葛尔盆地 and Tsaidam or Qaidam 柴达木盆地 in north Xinjiang Sichuan 四川盆地 |
| 四川大地震 | Sì chuān dà dì zhèn | Sichuan great earthquake; the magnitude 8 earthquake of May 2008 at Wenchuan 汶川, Sichuan, that killed more than 80,000 people |
| 四平地区 | Sì píng dì qū | former Siping prefecture, Jilin |
| 回信地址 | huí xìn dì zhǐ | return address |
| 回旋余地 | huí xuán yú dì | leeway; latitude; room for freedom of action |
| 固原地区 | Gù yuán dì qū | Guyuan prefecture in Ningxia |
| 圈地运动 | Quān dì Yùn dòng | Enclosure Movement |
| 国家地震局 | Guó jiā dì zhèn jú | China earthquake administration (CEA); State seismological bureau |
| 土地公 | tǔ dì gōng | Tudi Gong, the God of the earth |
