热土

熱土
rètǔ
noun #50,673

Measure Word

一片热土 piàn

Meanings

  1. 1 beloved homeland
  2. 2 cherished land
  3. 3 (figurative) hot piece of real estate

Examples

Wúlùn zǒu duō yuǎn, tā shǐzhōng huáiniàn gùxiāng de zhè piàn rètǔ.
No matter how far he travels, he always misses this beloved patch of homeland.
Shēnzhèn yǐ chéngwéi kējì tóuzī de rètǔ.
Shenzhen has become a hot spot for tech investment.

Tips

register
Two registers from one word. 热土 in literary / patriotic prose means 'the land one loves' (often the homeland). In business news it has shifted to mean 'hot zone, hot market' — e.g., 投资热土 (tóuzī rètǔ, investment hot spot).
memory
(rè, hot) + (tǔ, earth / land) — warm earth. The warmth is emotional in the patriotic sense, market-heat in the financial sense.

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