熟地

shúdì
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 cultivated land
  2. 2 (TCM) prepared rehmannia root (steamed and dried Rehmannia glutinosa)

Examples

Cūnlǐ de shúdì dàduō zhòng le shuǐdào.
Most of the village's cultivated land is planted with rice.
Zhè fù yào lǐjiā le shúdì, kěyǐ bǔxuè.
This medicine has prepared rehmannia in it; it nourishes the blood.

Tips

culture
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, 熟地 is the cooked / steamed form of 地黄 (dìhuáng, rehmannia root). The raw form 生地 (shēngdì, raw rehmannia) is cooling; processing it with 黄酒 (huángjiǔ, yellow wine) yields 熟地, which is warming and used to nourish blood and yin.
usage
Two senses to watch: in farming/real-estate it’s ‘cultivated, broken-in land’ (opposite of 生地, virgin land); in pharmacy it’s the herb. Context disambiguates.

Stroke Order

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