永定门 (永定門)
Yǒng dìng mén
Pinyin
Definition
永定门 (永定門)
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- Yongdingmen, front gate of the outer section of Beijing's old city wall, torn down in the 1950s and reconstructed in 2005
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 surely
- 2 certainly
- 3 necessarily
- 4 fixed
- 5 a certain (extent etc)
- 6 given
- 7 particular
- 8 must
- 1 to fix
- 2 to settle
- 3 to wangle
- 1 eternal
- 2 everlasting
- 3 fig. to pass into eternity (i.e. to die)
- 1 forever
- 2 eternal
Idioms (17)
一言为定
- 1 (idiom) it's a deal
- 2 that's settled then
人定胜天
- 1 man can conquer nature (idiom); human wisdom can prevail over nature
命中注定
- 1 decreed by fate (idiom)
- 2 destined
- 3 fated
尘埃落定
- 1 lit. the dust has settled (idiom)
- 2 fig. to get sorted out
- 3 to be finalized
定于一尊
- 1 (idiom) to rely on a single authority to determine what is correct
- 2 to regard a source (or entity or individual) as the ultimate authority