汉城 (漢城)
Hàn chéng
Pinyin

Definition

汉城 (漢城)
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Hàn chéng
  1. Hanseong, former name of Seoul (capital of South Korea), replaced in 2005 with 首爾|首尔[Shǒu ěr]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

城
chéng
  1. 1 city walls
  2. 2 city
  3. 3 town
  4. 4 classifier: 座 zuò
  5. 5 classifier: 道 dào
  6. 6 classifier: 个 gè
城市
chéng shì
  1. 1 city
  2. 2 town
  3. 3 classifier: 座 zuò
京城
jīng chéng
  1. 1 capital of a country
倾城
qīng chéng
  1. 1 coming from everywhere
  2. 2 from all over the place
  3. 3 gorgeous (of woman)
  4. 4 to ruin and overturn the state
全城
quán chéng
  1. 1 whole city

Idioms (13)

倾国倾城
qīng guó qīng chéng
  1. 1 lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful
  3. 3 also written 傾城傾國|倾城倾国[qīng chéng qīng guó]
倾城倾国
qīng chéng qīng guó
  1. 1 lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful
兵临城下
bīng lín chéng xià
  1. 1 soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture
唱空城计
chàng kōng chéng jì
  1. 1 lit. to sing “The Empty City Stratagem” (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to put up a bluff to conceal one's weakness
  3. 3 (jocularly) (of a place etc) to be empty
  4. 4 (of one's stomach) to be rumbling
围城打援
wéi chéng dǎ yuán
  1. 1 to besiege and strike the relief force (idiom); strategy of surrounding a unit to entice the enemy to reinforce, then striking the new troops

Sample Sentences

这是汉城吗？
zhè shì Hànchéng ma ？
Is this Seoul?
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最近还有一个热点，就是韩国电视台SBS。这三个字母是汉城广播系统的英语缩写，但中国人联想到的却是京骂。
zuìjìn hái yǒu yī ge rèdiǎn ，jiùshì Hánguó diànshìtái SBS 。zhè sān ge zìmǔ shì hànchéng guǎngbō xìtǒng de yīngyǔsuōxiě ，dàn zhōngguórén liánxiǎng dào de què shì jīngmà 。
Lately there's another hot topic-- the Korean National TV station SBS. These three letters stand for the English abbreviation Seoul Broadcasting System. But they make Chinese people think of a filthy word.
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