堰
yàn
Pinyin

Definition

堰
 - 
yàn
  1. weir

Character Decomposition

Related Words (9)

都江堰
Dū jiāng yàn
  1. 1 Dujiangyan in Sichuan, a famous water engineering project and World Heritage Site
  2. 2 Dujiangyan county level city in Chengdu 成都[Chéng dū], Sichuan
十堰
Shí yàn
  1. 1 Shiyan prefecture level city in Hubei
姜堰
Jiāng yàn
  1. 1 Jiangyan county level city in Taizhou 泰州[Tài zhōu], Jiangsu
都江堰市
Dū jiāng yàn shì
  1. 1 Dujiangyan county level city in Chengdu 成都[Chéng dū], Sichuan
十堰市
Shí yàn shì
  1. 1 Shiyan prefecture level city in Hubei
堰塞湖
yàn sè hú
  1. 1 dammed lake
  2. 2 lake formed by landslip or lava flow
塘堰
táng yàn
  1. 1 irrigation pond or dam
戚墅堰
Qī shù yàn
  1. 1 Qishu district of Changzhou city 常州市[Cháng zhōu shì], Jiangsu
姜堰市
Jiāng yàn shì
  1. 1 Jiangyan county level city in Taizhou 泰州[Tài zhōu], Jiangsu

Idioms (1)

兵来将敌，水来土堰
bīng lái jiàng dí , shuǐ lái tǔ yàn
  1. 1 counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
  2. 2 to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation

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