熟地

shúdì
noun

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 6
Cūnlǐ de shúdì dàduō zhòng le shuǐdào.
Most of the village's cultivated land is planted with rice.
HSK 6
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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