厦门 (廈門)
Xià mén
Pinyin

Definition

厦门 (廈門)
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Xià mén
  1. Xiamen or Amoy, subprovincial city in Fujian, abbr. 廈|厦[Xià]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

出门
chū mén
  1. 1 to go out
  2. 2 to leave home
  3. 3 to go on a journey
  4. 4 away from home
  5. 5 (of a woman) to get married
嗓门
sǎng mén
  1. 1 voice
  2. 2 windpipe
大厦
dà shà
  1. 1 (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝國大廈|帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc)
大门
Dà mén
  1. 1 the Doors, US rock band
家门
jiā mén
  1. 1 house door
  2. 2 family clan

Idioms (20)

一门心思
yī mén xīn si
  1. 1 to set one's heart on sth (idiom)
上天无路，入地无门
shàng tiān wú lù , rù dì wú mén
  1. 1 lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be at the end of one's rope
  3. 3 to be trapped in a hopeless situation
不是一家人不进一家门
bù shì yī jiā rén bù jìn yī jiā mén
  1. 1 people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom)
  2. 2 marriages are predestined
  3. 3 people marry because they share common traits
侯门似海
hóu mén sì hǎi
  1. 1 lit. the gate of a noble house is like the sea
  2. 2 there is a wide gap between the nobility and the common people (idiom)
光耀门楣
guāng yào mén méi
  1. 1 splendor shines on the family's door (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to bring honor to one's family

Sample Sentences

我在厦门有面试。
wǒ zài Xiàmén yǒu miànshì 。
I have an interview in Xiamen.
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还行，我还蛮喜欢闻的。去年我在厦门的时候泡过，里面有很多中药温泉，像什么人参温泉啊，冬虫夏草温泉啊，大大小小几十个池子呢。每种温泉都有不同的疗效。
hái xíng ，wǒ hái mán xǐhuan wén de 。qùnián wǒ zài Xiàmén de shíhou pào guò ，lǐmiàn yǒu hěn duō zhōngyào wēnquán ，xiàng shénme rénshēn wēnquán a ，dōngchóngxiàcǎo wēnquán a ，dàdàxiǎoxiǎo jǐshí gè chízi ne 。měi zhǒng wēnquán dōu yǒu bùtóng de liáoxiào 。
It's okay. I really like the smell of it. Last year when I was in Xiamen I did it. They've got all kinds of TCM hot springs there like ginseng hot springs, cordyceps fungus hot springs, a bunch of pools of all sizes. Every kind of hot spring has different therapeutic effects.
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我要去厦门。机票多少钱？
wǒ yào qù Xiàmén 。jīpiào duōshǎo qián ？
I want to go to Xiamen. How much is a plane ticket?
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五个，除了深圳以外，还有珠海、厦门、汕头和海南。
wǔ ge ，chúle Shēnzhèn yǐwài ，hái yǒu Zhūhǎi 、Xiàmén 、Shàntóu hé Hǎinán 。
There are five. Besides Shenzhen, there is Zhuhai, Xiamen, Shantou, and Hainan.
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