亚东 (亞東)
Yà dōng
Pinyin
Definition
亚东 (亞東)
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- Yadong county, Tibetan: Gro mo rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 second place (in a sports contest)
- 2 runner-up
- 1 Guangdong province (Kwangtung) in south China, short name 粵|粤[Yuè], capital Guangzhou 廣州|广州
- 1 surname Dong
- 1 the East
- 2 the Orient
- 3 two-character surname Dongfang
- 1 Dongguan prefecture-level city in Guangdong 廣東省|广东省[Guǎng dōng shěng]
Idioms (20)
付之东流
- 1 to commit to the waters (idiom); to lose sth irrevocably
借东风
- 1 lit. to use the eastern wind (idiom)
- 2 fig. to use sb's help
只欠东风
- 1 all we need is an east wind (idiom); lacking only one tiny crucial item
各奔东西
- 1 to go separate ways (idiom)
- 2 to part ways with sb
- 3 Taiwan pr. [gè bēn dōng xī]
失之东隅,收之桑榆
- 1 to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom)
- 2 to compensate later for one's earlier loss
- 3 what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts