黄鹤楼 (黃鶴樓)
Huáng hè Lóu
Pinyin

Definition

黄鹤楼 (黃鶴樓)
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Huáng hè Lóu
  1. Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985
  2. favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes
  3. Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢[Cuī Hào], with theme 'the past will never return'
  4. one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼[Yuè yáng Lóu] in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁[Téng wáng Gé] in Nanchang, Jiangxi

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

楼
Lóu
  1. 1 surname Lou
楼上
lóu shàng
  1. 1 upstairs
楼下
lóu xià
  1. 1 downstairs
楼梯
lóu tī
  1. 1 stair
  2. 2 staircase
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
红楼梦
Hóng lóu Mèng
  1. 1 A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹[Cáo Xuě qín], one of the four great novels

Idioms (20)

一琴一鹤
yī qín yī hè
  1. 1 carrying very little luggage (idiom)
  2. 2 honest and incorruptible (government officials)
不到黄河心不死
bù dào Huáng Hé xīn bù sǐ
  1. 1 lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal
  3. 3 to keep going while some hope is left
人去楼空
rén qù lóu kōng
  1. 1 the people are gone and the place is empty (idiom)
  2. 2 the sight of a deserted place brings old friends to mind
  3. 3 the place is deserted
  4. 4 the birds have flown
命归黄泉
mìng guī Huáng quán
  1. 1 lit. to return to the Yellow Springs 黃泉|黄泉[Huáng quán] (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to die
  3. 3 to meet one's end
哑巴吃黄莲
yǎ ba chī huáng lián
  1. 1 no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
  2. 2 also written 啞巴吃黃連|哑巴吃黄连
  3. 3 (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū])

Sample Sentences

为了防止疫情反弹，武汉建立了疫情防控长效机制。“解封”首日，在黄鹤楼脚下的西城壕社区，不停忙碌的社区书记翁文静说：“我们是‘无疫情社区’，但依然主张非必要不出门。”
wèile fángzhǐ yìqíng fǎntán ，Wǔhàn jiànlì le yìqíng fángkòng chángxiào jīzhì 。“jiěfēng ”shǒu rì ，zài Huánghèlóu jiǎoxià de xīchéngháo shèqū ，bùtíng mánglù de shèqū shūji wēngwénjìng shuō ：“wǒmen shì ‘wú yìqíng shèqū ’，dàn yīrán zhǔzhāng fēi bìyào bù chūmén 。”
In order to prevent the pandemic from rebounding, Wuhan has set up a long-term mechanism for preventing and controlling the pandemic. The first day of "unlockdown", in the Xichenghao Community under Huanghelou, the community secretary Wong Wen Jing who has been working non-stop said, "We are the 'zero virus community', but still please do not go out if not necessary. "
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故人西辞黄鹤楼，
gùrén xī cí Huánghèlóu ，
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