指南车 (指南車)
zhǐ nán chē
Pinyin
Definition
指南车 (指南車)
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- a mechanical compass invented by Zu Chongzhi 祖沖之|祖冲之
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 surname Nan
- 1 Nanjing subprovincial city on the Changjiang, capital of Jiangsu province 江蘇|江苏
- 2 capital of China at different historical periods
- 1 Nanning prefecture level city and capital of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in south China 廣西壯族自治區|广西壮族自治区
- 1 south
- 2 the southern part of the country
- 3 the South
- 1 (finger) ring
Idioms (20)
一个天南,一个地北
- 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一弹指顷
- 1 a snap of the fingers (idiom); in a flash
- 2 in the twinkling of an eye
不撞南墙不回头
- 1 to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)
了如指掌
- 1 to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom)
- 2 to know (a person, a place etc) inside out
令人发指
- 1 to make one's hair stand up in anger (idiom); to raise people's hackles