江河
jiāng hé
Pinyin
Definition
江河
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- river
江河
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- Yangtze and Yellow rivers
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 surname Jiang
- 1 south of Changjiang or Yangtze river
- 2 south of the lower reaches of Changjiang
- 3 often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces
- 4 a province during Qing times
- 5 in literature, refers to the sunny south
- 6 Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)
- 1 Jiangshan county level city in Quzhou 衢州[Qú zhōu], Zhejiang
- 1 rivers and lakes
- 2 all corners of the country
- 3 remote areas to which hermits retreat
- 4 section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law
- 5 the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wǔ xiá])
- 6 (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc
- 7 demimonde
- 8 (in modern times) triads
- 9 secret gangster societies
- 10 underworld
- 1 Jiangsu province (Kiangsu) in southeast China, abbr. 蘇|苏, capital Nanjing 南京
Idioms (20)
不到黄河心不死
- 1 lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom)
- 2 fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal
- 3 to keep going while some hope is left
人在江湖,身不由己
- 1 you can't always do as you like
- 2 one has to compromise in this world (idiom)
信口开河
- 1 to speak without thinking (idiom)
- 2 to blurt sth out
口若悬河
- 1 mouth like a torrent (idiom)
- 2 eloquent
- 3 glib
- 4 voluble
- 5 have the gift of the gab
大江南北
- 1 north and south sides of the Yangtze River (idiom)
- 2 (fig.) all over China