桑梓
sāng zǐ
Pinyin

Definition

桑梓
 - 
sāng zǐ
  1. (literary) native place
  2. homeland

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

桑拿
sāng ná
  1. 1 sauna (loanword)
沧桑
cāng sāng
  1. 1 great changes
  2. 2 ups and downs
  3. 3 vicissitudes
  4. 4 abbr. of 滄海桑田|沧海桑田[cāng hǎi sāng tián]
亚利桑那
Yà lì sāng nà
  1. 1 Arizona
亚利桑那州
Yà lì sāng nà zhōu
  1. 1 Arizona
哈桑
Hā sāng
  1. 1 Hassan (person name)
  2. 2 Hassan District
坦桑尼亚
Tǎn sāng ní yà
  1. 1 Tanzania
尼桑
Ní sāng
  1. 1 Nissan, Japanese car make (derived from 日產)
扶桑
Fú sāng
  1. 1 Fusang, mythical island of ancient literature, often interpreted as Japan
指桑骂槐
zhǐ sāng mà huái
  1. 1 lit. to point at the mulberry tree and curse the locust tree
  2. 2 fig. to scold sb indirectly
  3. 3 to make oblique accusations (idiom)
桑
Sāng
  1. 1 surname Sang
桑塔纳
Sāng tǎ nà
  1. 1 Santana (name)
桑巴
sāng bā
  1. 1 samba (dance) (loanword)
桑葚
sāng shèn
  1. 1 mulberry fruit (Fructus mori)
梓童
zǐ tóng
  1. 1 appellation of the empress by the emperor
欧巴桑
ōu ba sāng
  1. 1 older female
  2. 2 woman of mature years (Japanese loanword)
洛桑
Luò sāng
  1. 1 Lausanne (city in Switzerland)
沧桑感
cāng sāng gǎn
  1. 1 a sense of having been through good times and bad
  2. 2 a weathered and worn look
莫泊桑
Mò bó sāng
  1. 1 Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), French novelist and short story writer
吴敬梓
Wú Jìng zǐ
  1. 1 Wu Jingzi (1701-1754), Qing dynasty novelist, author of The Scholars 儒林外史[Rú lín Wài shǐ]
妈妈桑
mā ma sāng
  1. 1 mama-san, middle-aged woman who runs a brothel, bar etc (loanword from Japanese)
  2. 2 madam

Idioms (5)

失之东隅，收之桑榆
shī zhī dōng yú , shōu zhī sāng yú
  1. 1 to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom)
  2. 2 to compensate later for one's earlier loss
  3. 3 what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
指桑骂槐
zhǐ sāng mà huái
  1. 1 lit. to point at the mulberry tree and curse the locust tree
  2. 2 fig. to scold sb indirectly
  3. 3 to make oblique accusations (idiom)
杞梓之林
Qǐ zǐ zhī lín
  1. 1 forest of wolfberry and catalpa (Lycium chinense and Catalpa ovata, idiom); fig. great quantity of talent
渤澥桑田
bó xiè sāng tián
  1. 1 lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史記|史记[Shǐ jì], Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes
  2. 2 life's vicissitudes
沧海桑田
cāng hǎi sāng tián
  1. 1 lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the transformations of the world

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