Cantonese only — the spoken-language counterpart of Mandarin 们. Attach it to a pronoun to pluralize it: 我 ('I') becomes 我哋 ('we'), 佢 ('he/she') becomes 佢哋 ('they'). In Cantonese it is pronounced 'deih'; the Mandarin reading dì is essentially never used in speech.
The mouth radical 口 marks this as a spoken-language particle — a common job for the mouth radical, which flags sounds, speech words, and colloquial grammar markers.
Provides the sound. Standalone 地 ('earth') here lends only its pronunciation; the mouth radical was added in front to coin a purely grammatical spoken particle.
No stroke data for 哋; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.
