十里洋场 (十里洋場)
shí lǐ yáng chǎng
Pinyin
Definition
十里洋场 (十里洋場)
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- the Shanghai of old, with its foreign settlements
- (fig.) a bustling, cosmopolitan city
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 ten
- 2 10
- 1 twelve
- 2 12
- 1 very
- 2 completely
- 3 utterly
- 4 extremely
- 5 absolutely
- 6 hundred percent
- 7 to divide into ten equal parts
- 1 where?
- 2 somewhere
- 3 anywhere
- 4 wherever
- 5 nowhere (negative answer to question)
- 6 humble expression denying compliment
- 7 also written 哪裡|哪里
Idioms (20)
一五一十
- 1 lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
一传十,十传百
- 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
- 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一年被蛇咬十年怕井绳
- 1 bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy
一日千里
- 1 lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress
一暴十寒
- 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
- 2 sporadic effort
- 3 short attention span