地理

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Originally meant literally, “[definite] arrangement[s] of the earth”; attested earliest in the first part of Xici (繫辭上) commentary to the Classic of Changes^[1]:

• 仰以觀於天文，俯以察於地理，…… [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]

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  仰以观于天文，俯以察于地理，…… [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

  From: I Ching, 11^th – 8^th century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

  yǎng yǐ guān yú tiānwén, fǔ yǐ chá yú dìlǐ,...... [Pinyin]

  (The sage), in accordance with (the Yi), looking up, contemplates the brilliant phenomena of the heavens, and, looking down, examines the definite arrangements of the earth; [...]

地理

1. geography

   地理信息工程  ―  dìlǐ xìnxī gōngchéng  ―  geographic information engineering

2. geographical features; topography
3. (literary) address
4. (chiefly dialectal Mandarin, Hakka, Min) feng shui
5. (Classical) terrestrial organization(clarification of this definition is needed)

• (address): 地址 (dìzhǐ)
• (feng shui):

• (antonym(s) of “geography”): 天文 (tiānwén)

地理

1. (attributive) geographical

   地理位置  ―  dìlǐ wèizhì  ―  geographical location

• (Tokyo) ちり [chíꜜrì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕiɾʲi]

地(ち)理(り) • (chiri) 

1. geography

   abbreviation for 地理学(ちりがく, chirigaku)

2. geographical features; topography

• 地勢 (ちせい, chisei)

地理 • (jiri) (hangeul 지리)

1. hanja form^? of 지리 (“geography”)

地理

1. chữ Hán form of địa lí (“geography”).