地理

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Originally meant literally, “ arrangement 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,......

  (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 (Atamadaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

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”).