都江堰
Dū jiāng yàn
Pinyin
Definition
都江堰
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- Dujiangyan in Sichuan, a famous water engineering project and World Heritage Site
- Dujiangyan county level city in Chengdu 成都[Chéng dū], Sichuan
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 surname Du
- 1 Chengdu subprovincial city and capital of Sichuan province 四川 in southwest China
- 1 surname Jiang
- 1 south of Changjiang or Yangtze river
- 2 south of the lower reaches of Changjiang
- 3 often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces
- 4 a province during Qing times
- 5 in literature, refers to the sunny south
- 6 Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)
- 1 Jiangshan county level city in Quzhou 衢州[Qú zhōu], Zhejiang
Idioms (18)
人在江湖,身不由己
- 1 you can't always do as you like
- 2 one has to compromise in this world (idiom)
兵来将敌,水来土堰
- 1 counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
- 2 to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation
大江南北
- 1 north and south sides of the Yangtze River (idiom)
- 2 (fig.) all over China
手心手背都是肉
- 1 lit. both the palm and the back of the hand are made of flesh (idiom)
- 2 fig. to both be of equal importance
- 3 to value both equally
指点江山
- 1 to talk idly about important matters (idiom)
- 2 to set the world to rights
- 3 to pass judgment on everything