东亚 (東亞)
Dōng yà
Pinyin

Definition

东亚 (東亞)
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Dōng yà
  1. East Asia

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

亚军
yà jūn
  1. 1 second place (in a sports contest)
  2. 2 runner-up
广东
Guǎng dōng
  1. 1 Guangdong province (Kwangtung) in south China, short name 粵|粤[Yuè], capital Guangzhou 廣州|广州
东
Dōng
  1. 1 surname Dong
东方
Dōng fāng
  1. 1 the East
  2. 2 the Orient
  3. 3 two-character surname Dongfang
东莞
Dōng guǎn
  1. 1 Dongguan prefecture-level city in Guangdong 廣東省|广东省[Guǎng dōng shěng]

Idioms (20)

付之东流
fù zhī dōng liú
  1. 1 to commit to the waters (idiom); to lose sth irrevocably
借东风
jiè dōng fēng
  1. 1 lit. to use the eastern wind (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to use sb's help
只欠东风
zhǐ qiàn dōng fēng
  1. 1 all we need is an east wind (idiom); lacking only one tiny crucial item
各奔东西
gè bèn dōng xī
  1. 1 to go separate ways (idiom)
  2. 2 to part ways with sb
  3. 3 Taiwan pr. [gè bēn dōng xī]
失之东隅，收之桑榆
shī zhī dōng yú , shōu zhī sāng yú
  1. 1 to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom)
  2. 2 to compensate later for one's earlier loss
  3. 3 what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts

Sample Sentences

同种同宗是有可能的，东亚人本来就有很多相同的特征。但也说明不了中国人是日本人的祖先呀！
tóngzhǒngtóngzōng shì yǒu kěnéng de ，dōngyàrén běnlái jiù yǒu hěnduō xiāngtóng de tèzhēng 。dàn yě shuōmíngbùliǎo zhōngguórén shì rìběnrén de zǔxiān yā ！
It's very possible that we have a lot in common. There are many distinctive points of similarity among East Asian peoples. But that doesn't mean that the Chinese are the ancestors of the Japanese!
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