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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shí lǐ yáng chǎng
  1. the Shanghai of old, with its foreign settlements
  2. (fig.) a bustling, cosmopolitan city

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

shí
  1. 1 ten
  2. 2 10
shí èr
  1. 1 twelve
  2. 2 12
shí fēn
  1. 1 very
  2. 2 completely
  3. 3 utterly
  4. 4 extremely
  5. 5 absolutely
  6. 6 hundred percent
  7. 7 to divide into ten equal parts
nǎ lǐ
  1. 1 where?
  2. 2 somewhere
  3. 3 anywhere
  4. 4 wherever
  5. 5 nowhere (negative answer to question)
  6. 6 humble expression denying compliment
  7. 7 also written 哪裡|哪里
  1. 1 variant: 里 lǐ

Idioms (20)

一五一十
yī wǔ yī shí
  1. 1 lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail
一传十,十传百
yī chuán shí , shí chuán bǎi
  1. 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
  2. 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一年被蛇咬十年怕井绳
yī nián bèi shé yǎo shí nián pà jǐng shéng
  1. 1 bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy
一日千里
yī rì qiān lǐ
  1. 1 lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress
一暴十寒
yī pù shí hán
  1. 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
  2. 2 sporadic effort
  3. 3 short attention span