基地 jīdì▶ base

Stroke order

基地 is written in 17 strokes across 2 characters.

• 基 — 11 strokes
• 地 — 6 strokes

Related words

• 地势Terreno
• 地步condición; apuro; situación; estado; extensión
• 地质geología
• 基因gen
• 基金fondo
• 盆地cuenca, lavabo

基地 is pronounced jīdì and means “base”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 基地 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.