申城
Shēn chéng
Pinyin

Definition

申城
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Shēn chéng
  1. alternative name for Shanghai 上海[Shàng hǎi]
  2. alternative name for Xinyang City, Henan 信陽市|信阳市[Xìn yáng Shì]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

城
chéng
  1. 1 city walls
  2. 2 city
  3. 3 town
  4. 4 classifier: 座 zuò
  5. 5 classifier: 道 dào
  6. 6 classifier: 个 gè
城市
chéng shì
  1. 1 city
  2. 2 town
  3. 3 classifier: 座 zuò
京城
jīng chéng
  1. 1 capital of a country
倾城
qīng chéng
  1. 1 coming from everywhere
  2. 2 from all over the place
  3. 3 gorgeous (of woman)
  4. 4 to ruin and overturn the state
全城
quán chéng
  1. 1 whole city

Idioms (14)

三令五申
sān lìng wǔ shēn
  1. 1 to order again and again (idiom)
倾国倾城
qīng guó qīng chéng
  1. 1 lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful
  3. 3 also written 傾城傾國|倾城倾国[qīng chéng qīng guó]
倾城倾国
qīng chéng qīng guó
  1. 1 lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful
兵临城下
bīng lín chéng xià
  1. 1 soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture
唱空城计
chàng kōng chéng jì
  1. 1 lit. to sing “The Empty City Stratagem” (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to put up a bluff to conceal one's weakness
  3. 3 (jocularly) (of a place etc) to be empty
  4. 4 (of one's stomach) to be rumbling

Sample Sentences

据记者暗中调查，目前申城的药房都规定必须持有医生的处方才能购买抗生素。把抗生素的处方权交还给医生，将有效减少因滥用抗生素带来的日益严重的耐药后果。
jù jìzhě ànzhōng diàochá ，mùqián Shēn chéng de yàofáng dōu guīdìng bìxū chíyǒu yīshēng de chǔfāng cáinéng gòumǎi kàngshēngsù 。bǎ kàngshēngsù de chǔfāng quán jiāohuán gěi yīshēng ，jiāng yǒuxiào jiǎnshǎo yīn lànyòng kàngshēngsù dàilái de rìyì yánzhòng de nàiyào hòuguǒ 。
According to a reporter's undercover investigation, pharmacies in Shanghai are legally required to only sell antibiotics with a doctor's prescription. Returning the right to prescribe antibiotics to doctors will work to reduce the increasingly serious drug-resistant effects of antibiotic abuse.
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