帝王
dì wáng
Pinyin
Definition
帝王
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- regent
- monarch
Character Decomposition
Idioms (15)
胜者王侯败者寇
- 1 the winners become princes and marquises; the losers are vilified as bandits (idiom)
- 2 history is written by the victors
吃饭皇帝大
- 1 eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw)
大水冲了龙王庙
- 1 lit. surging waters flooded the Dragon King temple (idiom)
- 2 fig. to fail to recognize a familiar person
- 3 a dispute between close people who fail to recognize each other
天高皇帝远
- 1 lit. the sky is high and the emperor is far away (idiom)
- 2 fig. remote places are beyond the reach of the central government
成则为王,败则为寇
- 1 lit. called a king if successful, called a bandit if defeated (idiom)
- 2 fig. losers are always in the wrong
Sample Sentences
当然,你说的没错,所有的文化一定和社会形态密不可分。同时,孝悌文化经孔孟儒学的发挥,及历代帝王的提倡,也确实是深入民心。
Of course, you're right. All culture has an intimate relationship with social structures. At the same time, the culture of filial piety and fraternal duty, as expressed by Confucius, Mencius and the Confucian school, and promoted by successive emperors and kings, has really been deeply implanted in people's minds.
我也这么觉得,有人为了赚钱,不管后果,制造出帝王暴龙,就表现了人的自私。
I thought so too. Some people don't think of the consequences in their pursuit of money. The creation of the Indominus rex shows the greed of mankind.