帝王谱 (帝王譜)
dì wáng pǔ
Pinyin
Definition
帝王谱 (帝王譜)
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- list of emperors and kings
- dynastic genealogy
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