杜月笙
Dù Yuè shēng
Pinyin
Definition
杜月笙
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- Du Yuesheng (1888-1951), Shanghai secret-society leader, banker, industrialist
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
九天揽月
- 1 to reach for the stars (idiom)
倚栏望月
- 1 to lean against the railings and look at the moon (idiom)
光风霁月
- 1 lit. light breeze and clear moon (idiom)
- 2 period of peace and prosperity
- 3 noble and benevolent character
冰壶秋月
- 1 jade ice jug and autumn moon (idiom, from poem by Song writer Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡); fig. spotless white and pure
- 2 flawless person
成年累月
- 1 year in, year out (idiom)
Sample Sentences
不过这样的人也有出人头地的。你看杜月笙、黄金荣。后来都成了统治上海的老大。
But there were also some stand-outs among people like that. Think of Du Yuesheng and Huang Jinrong. Later on, they became the big bosses who ran Shanghai!