眷村
juàn cūn
Pinyin

Definition

眷村
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juàn cūn
  1. military dependents' village (community established in Taiwan for Nationalist soldiers and their dependents after the KMT retreated from the mainland in 1949)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

村
cūn
  1. 1 village
农村
nóng cūn
  1. 1 rural area
  2. 2 village
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
乡村
xiāng cūn
  1. 1 rustic
  2. 2 village
  3. 3 countryside
中关村
Zhōng guān cūn
  1. 1 Zhongguancun neighborhood of Beijing, containing Peking University, famous for electronics shops and bookstores
山村
shān cūn
  1. 1 mountain village

Idioms (6)

前不着村，后不着店
qián bù zháo cūn , hòu bù zháo diàn
  1. 1 lit. no village ahead and no inn behind (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be stranded in the middle of nowhere
  3. 3 to be in a predicament
携家带眷
xié jiā dài juàn
  1. 1 to take all one's family along (idiom); encumbered by a family
  2. 2 tied down by family obligations
有情人终成眷属
yǒu qíng rén zhōng chéng juàn shǔ
  1. 1 love will find a way (idiom)
村村寨寨
cūn cūn zhài zhài
  1. 1 every village and stockade (idiom)
过了这个村就没这个店
guò le zhè ge cūn jiù méi zhè ge diàn
  1. 1 past this village, you won't find this shop (idiom)
  2. 2 this is your last chance