南征北伐
nán zhēng běi fá
Pinyin

Definition

南征北伐
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nán zhēng běi fá
  1. war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

伐
fá
  1. 1 to cut down
  2. 2 to fell
  3. 3 to dispatch an expedition against
  4. 4 to attack
  5. 5 to boast
  6. 6 Taiwan pr. [fā]
北
běi
  1. 1 north
  2. 2 (classical) to be defeated
北京
Běi jīng
  1. 1 Beijing, capital of People's Republic of China
  2. 2 Peking
  3. 3 PRC government
南
Nán
  1. 1 surname Nan
南京
Nán jīng
  1. 1 Nanjing subprovincial city on the Changjiang, capital of Jiangsu province 江蘇|江苏
  2. 2 capital of China at different historical periods
东北
Dōng běi
  1. 1 Northeast China
  2. 2 Manchuria
海南
Hǎi nán
  1. 1 Hainan Province, in the South China Sea, short name 瓊|琼[Qióng], capital Haikou 海口
  2. 2 Hainan Island
  3. 3 Hainan District of Wuhai City 烏海市|乌海市[Wū hǎi Shì], Inner Mongolia
  4. 4 Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海南藏族自治州[Hǎi nán Zàng zú Zì zhì zhōu], Qinghai
湖南
Hú nán
  1. 1 Hunan province in south central China, abbr. 湘, capital Changsha 長沙|长沙[Cháng shā]
中南
Zhōng Nán
  1. 1 South Central China (Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan)
  2. 2 abbr. for China-South Africa
中南海
Zhōng nán hǎi
  1. 1 Zhongnanhai, palace adjacent to the Forbidden City, now the central headquarters of the Communist Party and the State Council
以南
yǐ nán
  1. 1 to the south of (suffix)
出征
chū zhēng
  1. 1 to go into battle
  2. 2 to campaign (military)
北上
běi shàng
  1. 1 to go up north
北京人
Běi jīng rén
  1. 1 Beijing resident
  2. 2 Peking ape-man, Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in 1921 at Zhoukoudian 周口店[Zhōu kǒu diàn], Beijing
北京市
Běi jīng Shì
  1. 1 Beijing
  2. 2 capital of People's Republic of China
  3. 3 one of the four municipalities 直轄市|直辖市[zhí xiá shì]
北国
běi guó
  1. 1 the northern part of the country
  2. 2 the North
北大
Běi Dà
  1. 1 Peking University (abbr. for 北京大學|北京大学)
北川
Běi chuān
  1. 1 Beichuan county level city in Mianyang prefecture 綿陽|绵阳, Sichuan
北平
Běi píng
  1. 1 Peiping or Beiping (name of Beijing at different periods, esp. 1928-1949)
北爱
Běi Ài
  1. 1 abbr. for 北愛爾蘭|北爱尔兰[Běi Ài ěr lán], Northern Ireland

Idioms (20)

一个天南，一个地北
yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi
  1. 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
不撞南墙不回头
bù zhuàng nán qiáng bù huí tóu
  1. 1 to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)
假道伐虢
jiǎ dào fá Guó
  1. 1 to obtain safe passage to conquer the State of Guo
  2. 2 to borrow the resources of an ally to attack a common enemy (idiom)
北叟失马
běi sǒu shī mǎ
  1. 1 lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. a blessing in disguise
  3. 3 it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
南征北伐
nán zhēng běi fá
  1. 1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
南征北战
nán zhēng běi zhàn
  1. 1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
南征北讨
nán zhēng běi tǎo
  1. 1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
南箕北斗
nán jī běi dǒu
  1. 1 the Winnowing Basket in the southern sky, and the Big Dipper in the north (idiom); sth which, despite its name, is of no practical use
南辕北辙
nán yuán běi zhé
  1. 1 to act in a way that defeats one's purpose (idiom)
口诛笔伐
kǒu zhū bǐ fá
  1. 1 to condemn in speech and in writing (idiom)
  2. 2 to denounce by word and pen
喝西北风
hē xī běi fēng
  1. 1 lit. drink the northwest wind (idiom); cold and hungry
寿比南山
shòu bǐ Nán Shān
  1. 1 Live as long as the Zhongnan Mountains! (idiom)
  2. 2 Long may you live!
大张挞伐
dà zhāng tà fá
  1. 1 to launch an all-out attack (idiom)
  2. 2 to roundly condemn
  3. 3 to castigate
大江南北
Dà jiāng nán běi
  1. 1 north and south sides of the Yangtze River (idiom)
  2. 2 (fig.) all over China
吊民伐罪
diào mín fá zuì
  1. 1 to console the people by punishing the tyrants (idiom)
御驾亲征
yù jià qīn zhēng
  1. 1 the emperor leads his troops into battle (idiom)
  2. 2 to take part personally in an expedition
征名责实
zhēng míng zé shí
  1. 1 to seek out the real nature based on the name (idiom); to judge sth at face value
有征无战
yǒu zhēng wú zhàn
  1. 1 to win without a fight (idiom)
东征西怨
dōng zhēng xī yuàn
  1. 1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters
东征西讨
dōng zhēng xī tǎo
  1. 1 war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters

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