泰山北斗
Tài shān Běi dǒu
Pinyin

Definition

泰山北斗
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Tài shān Běi dǒu
  1. as weighty as Mt Tai, as brilliant as the Big Dipper (idiom); a giant among men

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

bīng shān
  1. 1 iceberg
  2. 2 CL:座[zuò]
běi
  1. 1 north
  2. 2 (classical) to be defeated
Běi jīng
  1. 1 Beijing, capital of People's Republic of China
  2. 2 Peking
  3. 3 PRC government
Tái běi
  1. 1 Taibei or Taipei, capital of Taiwan
Táng shān
  1. 1 Tangshan prefecture level city in Hebei
fèn dòu
  1. 1 to strive
  2. 2 to struggle
Shān
  1. 1 surname Shan
Shān dōng
  1. 1 Shandong, province in northeast China, short name 魯|鲁[Lǔ], capital Jinan 濟南|济南[Jǐ nán]
zhàn dòu
  1. 1 to fight
  2. 2 to engage in combat
  3. 3 struggle
  4. 4 battle
  5. 5 CL:場|场[cháng],次[cì]
Dǒu
  1. 1 abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星[Běi dǒu xīng]
Dōng běi
  1. 1 Northeast China
  2. 2 Manchuria
Jiāng shān
  1. 1 Jiangshan county level city in Quzhou 衢州[Qú zhōu], Zhejiang
Tài guó
  1. 1 Thailand
  2. 2 Thai
Zhào Běn shān
  1. 1 Zhao Benshan (1958-), universally known PRC TV comedian
shàng shān
  1. 1 to go uphill
  2. 2 to spin cocoon (silkworms)
  3. 3 to pass away
xià shān
  1. 1 (of the sun) to set
Zhōng shān
  1. 1 refers to Dr Sun Yat-sen
  2. 2 Zhongshan, prefecture-level city in Guangdong, close to Sun Yat-sen's birthplace
  3. 3 Nakayama (Japanese surname)
Zhōng shān shì
  1. 1 Zhongshan prefecture-level city in Guangdong province 廣東省|广东省[Guǎng dōng shěng] in south China, close to Dr Sun Yat-sen's birthplace
Jiǔ huá shān
  1. 1 Mt Jiuhua in Anhui, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Kṣitigarbha 地藏
Rǔ shān
  1. 1 Rushan county level city in Weihai 威海, Shandong

Idioms (20)

一个天南,一个地北
yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi
  1. 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一山不容二虎
yī shān bù róng èr hǔ
  1. 1 lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us
  3. 3 (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive
不识泰山
bù shí Tài Shān
  1. 1 can't recognize Mt Taishan (idiom); fig. not to recognize a famous person
不显山不露水
bù xiǎn shān bù lù shuǐ
  1. 1 lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key facts
二虎相斗,必有一伤
èr hǔ xiāng dòu , bì yǒu yī shāng
  1. 1 lit. when two tigers fight, one is sure to be wounded (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. if it comes to a fight, someone will get hurt
人不可貌相,海水不可斗量
rén bù kě mào xiàng , hǎi shuǐ bù kě dǒu liáng
  1. 1 you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot (idiom)
他山之石可以攻玉
tā shān zhī shí kě yǐ gōng yù
  1. 1 lit. the other mountain's stone can polish jade (idiom); to improve oneself by accepting criticism from outside
  2. 2 to borrow talent from abroad to develop the nation effectively
两虎相斗
liǎng hǔ xiāng dòu
  1. 1 two tigers fight (idiom); fig. a dispute between two powerful adversaries
  2. 2 a battle of the giants
两虎相斗,必有一伤
liǎng hǔ xiāng dòu , bì yǒu yī shāng
  1. 1 when two tigers fight, one will get injured (idiom)
  2. 2 if it comes to a fight, someone will get hurt.
兵败如山倒
bīng bài rú shān dǎo
  1. 1 troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse
刀山火海
dāo shān huǒ hǎi
  1. 1 lit. mountains of daggers and seas of flames
  2. 2 fig. extreme danger (idiom)
勾心斗角
gōu xīn dòu jiǎo
  1. 1 to fight and scheme against each other (idiom)
  2. 2 (in palace construction) elaborate and refined
北叟失马
běi sǒu shī mǎ
  1. 1 lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. a blessing in disguise
  3. 3 it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
升斗小民
shēng dǒu xiǎo mín
  1. 1 poor people (idiom)
  2. 2 those who live from hand to mouth
南征北伐
nán zhēng běi fá
  1. 1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
南征北战
nán zhēng běi zhàn
  1. 1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
南征北讨
nán zhēng běi tǎo
  1. 1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
南箕北斗
nán jī běi dǒu
  1. 1 the Winnowing Basket in the southern sky, and the Big Dipper in the north (idiom); sth which, despite its name, is of no practical use
南辕北辙
nán yuán běi zhé
  1. 1 to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom)
名落孙山
míng luò Sūn Shān
  1. 1 lit. to fall behind Sun Shan 孫山|孙山[Sūn Shān] (who came last in the imperial examination) (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to fail an exam
  3. 3 to fall behind (in a competition)

Sample Sentences

孺子可教也!是的,“词”本身,在我们的大脑里,只是信息模块的载体,每个词背后所提供的信息量是相当大的,而“词汇是语言的一切”这一说法,就是咱们语言学的泰山北斗乔姆斯基在八十年代提出的。
rúzǐkějiāo yě !shì de ,“cí ”běnshēn ,zài wǒmen de dànǎo lǐ ,zhǐshì xìnxī mókuài de zàitǐ ,měige cí bèihòu suǒ tígōng de xìnxīliàng shì xiāngdāng dà de ,ér “cíhuì shì yǔyán de yīqiè ”zhè yī shuōfa ,jiùshì zánmen yǔyánxué de tàishānběidǒu Qiáomǔsījī zài bāshí niándài tíchū de 。
You're a quick learner! Yes, words themselves, in our brains, are simply carriers of modules of data. The amount of data behind each word is quite substantial, and the saying "vocabulary is everything in language", was proposed by the giant of the linguistics field, Noam Chomsky, back in the 1980s.