Illustration: At a small suburban vegetable plot, a gardener kneels beside a freshly dug trench. Its exposed side reveals carrot roots, a water pipe, and a forgotten toy truck embedded well beneath the level of the grass. Only the carrot leaves rise above the surface.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

地ち中ちゅう

chichuu

in the ground, underground

Example sentences

老人ろうじんはお金かねを地中ちちゅうに隠かくそうとした。
The old man tried to hide his money under the ground.
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あるいは、2つの要石よういしは地中ちちゅうで繋つながっているという。
The two rocks may be connected underground.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
しかし、その岩いわはゴルフ場じょうが建設けんせつされたときに地中ちちゅうに埋うめられたという。
The rock may have been buried when a golf course was built.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 地中

地ground; earthOnチ・ジ
中in; insideOnチュウKunなか・うち・あたる

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