江门 (江門)
Jiāng mén
Pinyin
Definition
江门 (江門)
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- Jiangmen prefecture-level city in Guangdong
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
粤港澳大湾区是改革开放四十周年再阔步出发的一个生动注脚。由香港、澳门两个特别行政区和广东省的广州、深圳、珠海、佛山、中山、东莞、肇庆、江门、惠州等九市组成的城市群,是国家建设世界级城市群和参与全球竞争的重要载体,与美国纽约湾区旧金山湾区和日本东京湾区比肩的世界四大湾区之一。
The Greater Bay project is a landmark initiative by the Chinese government and is a stride forward for China’s urbanization strategy after 40 years of economic reforms and expansion. It comprises two Special Administrative Regions- Hongkong and Macau and nine other cities in the Guangdong province -Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Zhongshan, Dongguan, Zhaoqing, Jiangmen and Huizhou. They are China’s ambition to create a world class city cluster to compete on the world stage - one that is on par to other city clusters such as Greater New York, San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Tokyo Area.