地区 dìqū▶ región

Stroke order

地区 is written in 10 strokes across 2 characters.

• 地 — 6 strokes
• 区 — 4 strokes

Senses

1. region; area (informal or geographical term)
2. prefecture (in China's administrative system)

Related words

• 土地tierra; aterrizar
• 地位estado
• 地毯Alfombra
• 地理Geografía
• 地道túnel
• 地震terremoto

地区 is pronounced dìqū and means “región”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 地区 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.