唐山
Táng shān
Pinyin

Definition

唐山
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Táng shān
  1. Tangshan prefecture level city in Hebei

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

中山
Zhōng shān
  1. 1 refers to Dr Sun Yat-sen
  2. 2 Zhongshan, prefecture-level city in Guangdong, close to Sun Yat-sen's birthplace
  3. 3 Nakayama (Japanese surname)
人山人海
rén shān rén hǎi
  1. 1 multitude
  2. 2 vast crowd
佛山
Fó shān
  1. 1 Foshan prefecture-level city in Guangdong
冰山
bīng shān
  1. 1 iceberg
  2. 2 classifier: 座 zuò
唐
Táng
  1. 1 Tang dynasty (618-907)
  2. 2 surname Tang

Idioms (20)

一山不容二虎
yī shān bù róng èr hǔ
  1. 1 lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us
  3. 3 (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive
不识泰山
bù shí Tài Shān
  1. 1 can't recognize Mt Taishan (idiom); fig. not to recognize a famous person
不显山不露水
bù xiǎn shān bù lù shuǐ
  1. 1 lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key facts
他山之石可以攻玉
tā shān zhī shí kě yǐ gōng yù
  1. 1 lit. the other mountain's stone can polish jade (idiom); to improve oneself by accepting criticism from outside
  2. 2 to borrow talent from abroad to develop the nation effectively
兵败如山倒
bīng bài rú shān dǎo
  1. 1 troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse

Sample Sentences

哦，图二是唐山大地震。地震有哪些危害？这个我知道，房子都塌了，人都被压死了，太惨了！幸亏我没有出生在唐山。
ō ，tú èr shì Tángshān dà dìzhèn 。dìzhèn yǒu nǎxiē wēihài ？zhè ge wǒ zhīdào ，fángzi dōu tā le ，rén dōu bèi yā sǐ le ，tài cǎn le ！xìngkuī wǒ méiyǒu chūshēng zài Tángshān 。
Oh, the second chart shows the Tangshan large earthquake. What destruction did the earthquake cause? This I know. Houses collapsed, people were crushed. It was so tragic! Luckily, we weren't born in Tangshan.
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唐山大地震是1976年的事，怎么会有你呢！
Tángshān dà dìzhèn shì yī jiǔ qī liù nián de shì ，zénme huì yǒu nǐ ne ！
The Tangshan earthquake occurred in 1976, how could you be around?
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