地震 dìzhèn earthquake
怎么记住“地震”: 地 ground + 震 shake = earthquake.
汉字
用法
- 地震 (dìzhèn) is the standard word for earthquake, used in both news and everyday speech.
- Fixed collocation: 发生地震 (fāshēng dìzhèn) - an earthquake occurs/strikes; you don't say 有地震 as naturally as 发生地震 in formal reports, though 有地震 is fine casually.
- Magnitude is expressed with 级: 六级地震 (a magnitude-6 earthquake).
- As a two-character noun it can also function loosely as a verb in headlines (地震了 - there was an earthquake), a common pattern for natural-disaster nouns in Chinese.
例句
- 我怕地震。 Wǒpà dìzhèn.I'm afraid of earthquakes.
- 日本有许多地震。 Rìběn yǒu xǔduō dìzhèn.There are many earthquakes in Japan.
- 地震随时都可能发生。 Dìzhèn suíshí dōu kěnéng fāshēng.An earthquake can happen at any time.