九层塔
jiǔ céng tǎ
Pinyin

Definition

九层塔
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jiǔ céng tǎ
  1. basil

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

九
jiǔ
  1. 1 nine
  2. 2 9
金字塔
jīn zì tǎ
  1. 1 pyramid (building or structure)
马英九
Mǎ Yīng jiǔ
  1. 1 Ma Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei 1998-2006, president of Republic of China 2008-2016
一言九鼎
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
  1. 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
九九归一
jiǔ jiǔ guī yī
  1. 1 nine divide by nine is one (abacus rule)
  2. 2 when all is said and done
九十
jiǔ shí
  1. 1 ninety
九天
jiǔ tiān
  1. 1 the Ninth Heaven
  2. 2 the highest of the heavens
九寨沟
Jiǔ zhài gōu
  1. 1 Jiuzhaigou Valley, Sichuan
  2. 2 Jiuzhaigou county, Sichuan
九尾狐
jiǔ wěi hú
  1. 1 nine-tailed fox (mythological creature)
九州
Jiǔ zhōu
  1. 1 division of China during earliest dynasties
  2. 2 fig. ancient China
  3. 3 Kyūshū, southernmost of Japan's four major islands
九成
jiǔ chéng
  1. 1 nine-tenths
  2. 2 ninety percent
九月
Jiǔ yuè
  1. 1 September
  2. 2 ninth month (of the lunar year)
九月份
jiǔ yuè fèn
  1. 1 September
  2. 2 ninth month
九江
Jiǔ jiāng
  1. 1 Jiujiang prefecture-level city in Jiangxi
  2. 2 also Jiujiang county
九华山
Jiǔ huá shān
  1. 1 Mt Jiuhua in Anhui, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Kṣitigarbha 地藏
九霄云外
jiǔ xiāo yún wài
  1. 1 beyond the topmost clouds (idiom)
  2. 2 unimaginably far away
九龙
Jiǔ lóng
  1. 1 Kowloon district of Hong Kong
佛塔
fó tǎ
  1. 1 pagoda
十之八九
shí zhī bā jiǔ
  1. 1 most likely
  2. 2 mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10)
  3. 3 vast majority
十九
shí jiǔ
  1. 1 nineteen
  2. 2 19

Idioms (10)

一言九鼎
yī yán jiǔ dǐng
  1. 1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight
三旬九食
sān xún jiǔ shí
  1. 1 lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation
  3. 3 in dire straits
九天揽月
jiǔ tiān lǎn yuè
  1. 1 to reach for the stars (idiom)
九死一生
jiǔ sǐ yī shēng
  1. 1 nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape
  2. 2 new lease of life
九牛一毛
jiǔ niú yī máo
  1. 1 lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. a drop in the ocean
九牛二虎之力
jiǔ niú èr hǔ zhī lì
  1. 1 tremendous strength (idiom)
九霄云外
jiǔ xiāo yún wài
  1. 1 beyond the topmost clouds (idiom)
  2. 2 unimaginably far away
聚沙成塔
jù shā chéng tǎ
  1. 1 sand grains accumulate to make a tower a tower (idiom); by gathering small amounts one gets a huge quantity
  2. 2 many a mickle makes a muckle
行百里者半九十
xíng bǎi lǐ zhě bàn jiǔ shí
  1. 1 lit. ninety li is merely a half of a hundred li journey (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the closer one is to completing a task, the tougher it gets
  3. 3 a task is not done until it's done
龙生九子
lóng shēng jiǔ zǐ
  1. 1 lit. the dragon has nine sons (idiom); fig. all kinds of characters
  2. 2 good and bad intermingled
  3. 3 It takes all sorts to make a world.

Sample Sentences

九层塔一把
jiǔcéngtǎ yī bǎ
A handful of basil
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最后加入辣椒片、九层塔，轻轻拌一下就可以起锅了
zuìhòu jiārù làjiāo piàn 、jiǔcéngtǎ ，qīngqīng bàn yīxià jiù kěyǐ qǐguō le
Finally add slices of the chili pepper, the sliced basil then after lightly stirring it you can remove it from the heat
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