太平天国 (太平天國)
Tài píng Tiān guó
Pinyin

Definition

太平天国 (太平天國)
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Tài píng Tiān guó
  1. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1851-1864)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

今天
jīn tiān
  1. 1 today
  2. 2 at the present
  3. 3 now
天
tiān
  1. 1 day
  2. 2 sky
  3. 3 heaven
天下
tiān xià
  1. 1 land under heaven
  2. 2 the whole world
  3. 3 the whole of China
  4. 4 realm
  5. 5 rule
天天
tiān tiān
  1. 1 every day
天气
tiān qì
  1. 1 weather

Idioms (20)

一人得道，鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南，一个地北
yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi
  1. 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一柱擎天
yī zhù qíng tiān
  1. 1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders
一步登天
yī bù dēng tiān
  1. 1 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success
一波未平，一波又起
yī bō wèi píng , yī bō yòu qǐ
  1. 1 before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved
  2. 2 many twists and turns to a story
  3. 3 one thing after another

Sample Sentences

孙中山，蒋介石，还有利玛窦。哦，不对，利玛窦是外国人。第三个是......太平天国的洪秀全。
Sūn Zhōngshān ，Jiǎng Jièshí ，háiyǒu Lìmǎdòu 。ò ，bù duì ，Lìmǎdòu shì wàiguórén 。dì sān ge shì ......Tàipíngtiānguó de Hóng Xiùquán 。
Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kaishek, and Matteo Ricci. Oh wait, that's wrong, Matteo Ricci was a foreigner. The third is...Hong Xiuquan from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
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