越城
Yuè chéng
Pinyin
Definition
越城
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- Yuecheng district of Shaoxing city 紹興市|绍兴市[Shào xīng shì], Zhejiang
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to pass through
- 2 to traverse
- 3 to cross
- 1 generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods
- 2 abbr. for Vietnam 越南
- 1 more and more
Idioms (19)
倾国倾城
- 1 lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom)
- 2 fig. (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful
- 3 also written 傾城傾國|倾城倾国[qīng chéng qīng guó]
倾城倾国
- 1 lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom)
- 2 fig. (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful
兵临城下
- 1 soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture
吴越同舟
- 1 Wu and Yue in the same boat (idiom); fig. cooperation between natural rivals
- 2 to collaborate towards a common end
- 3 in the same boat together
唱空城计
- 1 lit. to sing “The Empty City Stratagem” (idiom)
- 2 fig. to put up a bluff to conceal one's weakness
- 3 (jocularly) (of a place etc) to be empty
- 4 (of one's stomach) to be rumbling