湖泊
hú pō
Pinyin

Definition

湖泊
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hú pō
  1. lake

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

江湖
jiāng hú
  1. 1 rivers and lakes
  2. 2 all corners of the country
  3. 3 remote areas to which hermits retreat
  4. 4 section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law
  5. 5 the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wǔ xiá])
  6. 6 (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc
  7. 7 demimonde
  8. 8 (in modern times) triads
  9. 9 secret gangster societies
  10. 10 underworld
湖
hú
  1. 1 lake
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
  3. 3 classifier: 片 piàn
湖南
Hú nán
  1. 1 Hunan province in south central China, abbr. 湘, capital Changsha 長沙|长沙[Cháng shā]
五湖四海
wǔ hú sì hǎi
  1. 1 all parts of the country
停泊
tíng bó
  1. 1 to anchor
  2. 2 anchorage
  3. 3 mooring (of a ship)

Idioms (6)

人在江湖，身不由己
rén zài jiāng hú , shēn bù yóu jǐ
  1. 1 you can't always do as you like
  2. 2 one has to compromise in this world (idiom)
淡泊名利
dàn bó míng lì
  1. 1 not caring about fame and fortune (idiom)
  2. 2 indifferent to worldly rewards
淡泊寡味
dàn bó guǎ wèi
  1. 1 insipid and tasteless (idiom)
淡泊明志
dàn bó míng zhì
  1. 1 living a simple life as one's ideal (idiom)
湖光山色
hú guāng shān sè
  1. 1 scenic lakes and mountain (idiom); beautiful lake and mountain landscape

Sample Sentences

罗布泊曾经是一片湖泊，后来干涸了。美国的卫星拍摄到的罗布泊酷似一只耳朵。
Luóbùpō céngjīng shì yī piàn húpō ，hòulái gānhé le 。Měiguó de wèixīng pāishè dào de Luóbùpō kùsì yī zhī ěrduo 。
The Lop Nor was once a lake. Later, it dried up. As photographed by American satellites, the Lop Nor is shaped like an ear.
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You're still way too relaxed about this. Can you be saying that you want to breathe filthy air all day, blowing dust devils, and drinking dirty water from the Yangtze River? You should know that 70% of the lakes in China are already polluted, and the trend for ecological protection in those lakes is extremely serious...
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