故宫博物院
Gù gōng Bó wù yuàn
Pinyin

Definition

故宫博物院
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Gù gōng Bó wù yuàn
  1. Palace Museum, in the Forbidden City, Beijing
  2. National Palace Museum, Taipei

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

博
bó
  1. 1 extensive
  2. 2 ample
  3. 3 rich
  4. 4 obtain
  5. 5 aim
  6. 6 to win
  7. 7 to get
  8. 8 plentiful
  9. 9 to gamble
博文
bó wén
  1. 1 blog article
  2. 2 to write a blog article (netspeak)
故事
gù shì
  1. 1 old practice
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
世故
shì gù
  1. 1 the ways of the world
事故
shì gù
  1. 1 accident
  2. 2 CL:樁|桩[zhuāng],起[qǐ],次[cì]
事物
shì wù
  1. 1 thing
  2. 2 object
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
人物
rén wù
  1. 1 person
  2. 2 character (in a play, novel etc)
  3. 3 protagonist
  4. 4 CL:個|个[gè]
住院
zhù yuàn
  1. 1 to be in hospital
  2. 2 to be hospitalized
出院
chū yuàn
  1. 1 to leave hospital
  2. 2 to be discharged from hospital
利物浦
Lì wù pǔ
  1. 1 Liverpool (England)
剧院
jù yuàn
  1. 1 theater
  2. 2 CL:家[jiā],座[zuò]
动物
dòng wù
  1. 1 animal
  2. 2 CL:隻|只[zhī],群[qún],個|个[gè]
动物园
dòng wù yuán
  1. 1 zoo
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
博友
bó yǒu
  1. 1 lit. blog friend
博士
bó shì
  1. 1 doctor
  2. 2 court academician (in feudal China)
  3. 3 Ph.D.
博大
bó dà
  1. 1 enormous
  2. 2 broad
  3. 3 extensive
博客
bó kè
  1. 1 blog (loanword)
  2. 2 weblog
  3. 3 blogger
博物馆
bó wù guǎn
  1. 1 museum
国务院
Guó wù yuàn
  1. 1 State Council (PRC)
  2. 2 State Department (USA)
学院
xué yuàn
  1. 1 college
  2. 2 educational institute
  3. 3 school
  4. 4 faculty
  5. 5 CL:所[suǒ]

Idioms (20)

一改故辙
yī gǎi gù zhé
  1. 1 complete change from the old rut (idiom); dramatic change of direction
  2. 2 a volte-face
  3. 3 to change old practices
一物降一物
yī wù xiáng yī wù
  1. 1 lit. one object bests another object
  2. 2 every item has a weakness (idiom)
  3. 3 there is a rock to every scissor, a scissor to every paper, and a paper to every rock
仁民爱物
rén mín ài wù
  1. 1 love to all creatures (idiom, from Mencius); universal benevolence
仁言利博
rén yán lì bó
  1. 1 Words of benevolence apply universally (idiom). Humanitarian expressions benefit all.
他乡遇故知
tā xiāng yù gù zhī
  1. 1 meeting an old friend in a foreign place (idiom)
依然如故
yī rán rú gù
  1. 1 back to where we were (idiom); absolutely no improvement
  2. 2 Things haven't changed at all.
依然故我
yī rán gù wǒ
  1. 1 to be one's old self (idiom)
  2. 2 to be unchanged
  3. 3 (derog.) to be stuck in one's ways
价廉物美
jià lián wù měi
  1. 1 inexpensive and of good quality (idiom)
博士买驴
bó shì mǎi lu:2
  1. 1 lit. the scholar buys a donkey (idiom); fig. long-winded verbiage that never gets to the point
  2. 2 idiom mocking scholastic pomposity
博学多才
bó xué duō cái
  1. 1 erudite and multi-talented (idiom); versatile and able
博文约礼
bó wén yuē lǐ
  1. 1 vigorously pursuing knowledge, while scrupulously abiding by the rules of decorum (idiom)
博物洽闻
bó wù qià wén
  1. 1 to have a wide knowledge of many subjects (idiom)
博而不精
bó ér bù jīng
  1. 1 extensive but not refined (idiom); to know something about everything
  2. 2 jack-of-all-trades, master of none
博识多通
bó shí duō tōng
  1. 1 knowledgeable and perspicacious (idiom)
博识洽闻
bó shí qià wén
  1. 1 knowledgeable
  2. 2 erudite (idiom)
厚德载物
hòu dé zài wù
  1. 1 with great virtue one can take charge of the world (idiom)
吐故纳新
tǔ gù nà xīn
  1. 1 lit. to breathe out stale air and breathe in fresh (idiom, from Zhuangzi 庄子); fig. to get rid of the old and bring in the new
囊中取物
náng zhōng qǔ wù
  1. 1 as easy as reaching for it from a bag (idiom)
  2. 2 in the bag
  3. 3 (as good as) in one's possession
地大物博
dì dà wù bó
  1. 1 vast territory with abundant resources (idiom)
天低吴楚，眼空无物
tiān dī Wú Chǔ , yǎn kōng wú wù
  1. 1 the sky hangs low over the Yangtze, empty as far as the eye can see (idiom); nothing to see to the broad horizon

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