江淮官话
Jiāng Huái guān huà
Pinyin

Definition

江淮官话
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Jiāng Huái guān huà
  1. Jianghuai Mandarin

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

guān yuán
  1. 1 official (in an organization or government)
  2. 2 administrator
guān fāng
  1. 1 government
  2. 2 official (approved or issued by an authority)
Jiāng
  1. 1 surname Jiang
Jiāng nán
  1. 1 south of Changjiang or Yangtze river
  2. 2 south of the lower reaches of Changjiang
  3. 3 often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces
  4. 4 a province during Qing times
  5. 5 in literature, refers to the sunny south
  6. 6 Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)
Jiāng shān
  1. 1 Jiangshan county level city in Quzhou 衢州[Qú zhōu], Zhejiang
jiāng hú
  1. 1 rivers and lakes
  2. 2 all corners of the country
  3. 3 remote areas to which hermits retreat
  4. 4 section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law
  5. 5 the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wǔ xiá])
  6. 6 (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc
  7. 7 demimonde
  8. 8 (in modern times) triads
  9. 9 secret gangster societies
  10. 10 underworld
Jiāng sū
  1. 1 Jiangsu province (Kiangsu) in southeast China, abbr. 蘇|苏, capital Nanjing 南京
Jiāng xī
  1. 1 Jiangxi province (Kiangsi) in southeast China, abbr. 赣, capital Nanchang 南昌
Zhè jiāng
  1. 1 Zhejiang province (Chekiang) in east China, abbr. 浙, capital Hangzhou 杭州
Cháng Jiāng
  1. 1 Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang
Lì jiāng
  1. 1 Lijiang prefecture-level city in northwest Yunnan
Shàng guān
  1. 1 two-character surname Shangguan
Jiǔ jiāng
  1. 1 Jiujiang prefecture-level city in Jiangxi
  2. 2 also Jiujiang county
wǔ guān
  1. 1 five sense organs of TCM (nose, eyes, lips, tongue, ears 鼻目口舌耳)
  2. 2 facial features
zuò guān
  1. 1 to take an official post
  2. 2 to become a government employee
Nèi jiāng
  1. 1 Neijiang prefecture level city in Sichuan
pàn guān
  1. 1 magistrate (during Tang and Song dynasties)
  2. 2 mythological underworld judge
shēng guān
  1. 1 to get promoted
Wú jiāng
  1. 1 Wujiang county level city in Suzhou 蘇州|苏州[Sū zhōu], Jiangsu
qì guān
  1. 1 organ (part of body tissue)
  2. 2 apparatus

Idioms (20)

人在江湖,身不由己
rén zài jiāng hú , shēn bù yóu jǐ
  1. 1 you can't always do as you like
  2. 2 one has to compromise in this world (idiom)
加官进位
jiā guān jìn wèi
  1. 1 promotion in official post and salary raise (idiom)
加官进爵
jiā guān jìn jué
  1. 1 promotion to the nobility (idiom)
加官进禄
jiā guān jìn lù
  1. 1 promotion in official post and salary raise (idiom)
升官发财
shēng guān fā cái
  1. 1 to be promoted and gain wealth (idiom)
大江南北
Dà jiāng nán běi
  1. 1 north and south sides of the Yangtze River (idiom)
  2. 2 (fig.) all over China
奸官污吏
jiān guān wū lì
  1. 1 traitor minister and corrupt official (idiom); abuse and corruption
官报私仇
guān bào sī chóu
  1. 1 to take advantage of official post for personal revenge (idiom)
官官相护
guān guān xiāng hù
  1. 1 officials shield one another (idiom); a cover-up
官私合营
guān sī hé yíng
  1. 1 public and private interests working together (idiom)
官逼民反
guān bī mín fǎn
  1. 1 a government official drives the people to revolt (idiom); a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people
官运亨通
guān yùn hēng tōng
  1. 1 (of a political career) everything is going smoothly (idiom)
指点江山
zhǐ diǎn jiāng shān
  1. 1 to talk idly about important matters (idiom)
  2. 2 to set the world to rights
  3. 3 to pass judgment on everything
文江学海
wén jiāng xué hǎi
  1. 1 river of literacy, sea of learning (idiom); ars longa, vita brevis
新官上任三把火
xīn guān shàng rèn sān bǎ huǒ
  1. 1 (of a newly appointed official) to make bold changes on assuming office (idiom)
春江水暖鸭先知
chūn jiāng shuǐ nuǎn yā xiān zhī
  1. 1 lit. the duck is the first to know if the spring water is warm (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. an expert in the field knows which way the wind blows
江山易改,本性难移
jiāng shān yì gǎi , běn xìng nán yí
  1. 1 it is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character (idiom)
  2. 2 you can't change who you are
  3. 3 Can the leopard change his spots?
江河日下
jiāng hé rì xià
  1. 1 rivers pour away by the day (idiom); going from bad to worse
  2. 2 deteriorating day by day
江郎才尽
Jiāng láng cái jìn
  1. 1 Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to have used up one's creative powers
  3. 3 to have writer's block
无颜见江东父老
wú yán jiàn Jiāng dōng fù lǎo
  1. 1 (idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiàng Yǔ], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)

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