都江堰市
Dū jiāng yàn shì
Pinyin
Definition
都江堰市
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- Dujiangyan county level city in Chengdu 成都[Chéng dū], Sichuan
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
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)
偶语弃市
- 1 chance remarks can lead to public execution (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