割地

Chinese

		cut off	earth; ground; field earth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); ‑ly
trad. (割地)		割	地
simp. #(割地)		割	地

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gēdì

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜ ㄉㄧˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gēdì
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜ ㄉㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gedì
    • Wade–Giles: ko¹-ti⁴
    • Yale: gē-dì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gedih
    • Palladius: гэди (gɛdi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ⁵⁵ ti⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: kat dijH

Rime
Character	割	地
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	曷 (63)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	古達切	徒四切
Baxter	kat	dijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɑt̚/	/diɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/kɑt̚/	/diH/
Shao Rongfen	/kɑt̚/	/djɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kat̚/	/diH/
Li Rong	/kɑt̚/	/diH/
Wang Li	/kɑt̚/	/diH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kɑt̚/	/dʱiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ge	dì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	got3	dei6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə-kˤat  [l]ˤej-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kaːd  l'els/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	割	地
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gē	dì
Middle Chinese	‹ kat ›	‹ dijH ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə-kˁat/	/*[l]ˁej-s/
English	cut (v.); harm (v.)	earth, ground
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	割	地
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	4851	14808
Phonetic component	害	也
Rime group	月	歌
Rime subdivision	1	2
Corresponding MC rime	葛	地
Old Chinese	/*kaːd/	/*l'els/

Verb

割地

1. to cede territory

   • 割地之外，又索去了巨大的賠款。 [MSC, trad.]
     割地之外，又索去了巨大的赔款。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1939, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《中國革命和中國共產黨》 (The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Gēdì zhīwài, yòu suǒ qù le jùdà de péikuǎn. [Pinyin]

     In addition to annexing territory, they exacted huge indemnities.

Derived terms

• 割地賠款 / 割地赔款 (gēdìpéikuǎn)