莆田市
Pú tián shì
Pinyin
Definition
莆田市
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- Putian prefecture level city in Fujian
Character Decomposition
Idioms (11)
偶语弃市
- 1 chance remarks can lead to public execution (idiom)
招摇过市
- 1 to parade oneself ostentatiously about town (idiom)
求田问舍
- 1 lit. to be interested exclusively in the acquisition of estate (idiom)
- 2 fig. to have no lofty aspirations in life
渤澥桑田
- 1 lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史記|史记[Shǐ jì], Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes
- 2 life's vicissitudes
沧海桑田
- 1 lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom)
- 2 fig. the transformations of the world