基地

Chinese

 
base; foundation; basic; radical (chem.)
 
earth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); ‑ly
simp. and trad.
(基地)		 基 地
anagram 地基

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 基 (き)地 (ち) (kichi, “base”), which was in turn a semantic readaptation of Chinese 基地 (“land on which building rests”).

Pronunciation

Noun

基地

  1. base
    軍事基地 / 军事基地  ―  jūnshì jīdì  ―  military base
    科研基地  ―  kēyán jīdì  ―  research base
    基地工廠 / 基地工厂  ―  jīdì gōngchǎng  ―  factory depot
    作戰基地 / 作战基地  ―  zuòzhàn jīdì  ―  base of operations (in wartime)

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
基 地
き
Grade: 5		 ち
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

基地 (hiragana きち, rōmaji kichi)

  1. base (e.g. military, research)

Descendants

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  3. 1 2 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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