江浙
Jiāng Zhè
Pinyin
Definition
江浙
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- abbr. for Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏[Jiāng sū] and Zhejiang 浙江[Zhè jiāng]
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 (13)
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)
大江南北
- 1 north and south sides of the Yangtze River (idiom)
- 2 (fig.) all over China
指点江山
- 1 to talk idly about important matters (idiom)
- 2 to set the world to rights
- 3 to pass judgment on everything
文江学海
- 1 river of literacy, sea of learning (idiom); ars longa, vita brevis
春江水暖鸭先知
- 1 lit. the duck is the first to know if the spring water is warm (idiom)
- 2 fig. an expert in the field knows which way the wind blows
Sample Sentences
说到苏轼苏东坡,我就想到了一道西湖名菜,东坡肉。这菜呢属江浙菜系,薄皮嫩肉,色泽红亮,想想就要流口水啊。
Talking of Su Shi, or of Su Dongpo, as he's also known, I've thought of a famous dish from the West Lake area, "Dongpo" stir-fried pork. This dish belongs to the Zhejiang-Jiangsu cuisine family, thin-skinned tender pork, a bright red color, just thinking of it makes me drool.
每个地方都不太一样。像经济发达的地区,比如江浙、广东,一个月有八百多块。而有些内陆城市可能才四五百。连北京也只有七百多一点。你想想,在大城市,这点钱肯定入不敷出。