洞庭湖
Dòng tíng Hú
Pinyin

Definition

洞庭湖
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Dòng tíng Hú
  1. Dongting Lake in northeast Hunan province

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

家庭
jiā tíng
  1. 1 family
  2. 2 household
  3. 3 CL:戶|户[hù],個|个[gè]
江湖
jiāng hú
  1. 1 rivers and lakes
  2. 2 all corners of the country
  3. 3 remote areas to which hermits retreat
  4. 4 section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law
  5. 5 the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wǔ xiá])
  6. 6 (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc
  7. 7 demimonde
  8. 8 (in modern times) triads
  9. 9 secret gangster societies
  10. 10 underworld
洞
dòng
  1. 1 cave
  2. 2 hole
  3. 3 zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers)
  4. 4 CL:個|个[gè]
湖
hú
  1. 1 lake
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè],片[piàn]
湖南
Hú nán
  1. 1 Hunan province in south central China, abbr. 湘, capital Changsha 長沙|长沙[Cháng shā]
五湖四海
wǔ hú sì hǎi
  1. 1 all parts of the country
千岛湖
Qiān dǎo Hú
  1. 1 Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang, aka Xin'an River Reservoir, created as part of a large hydroelectric project in 1959
南湖
Nán hú
  1. 1 Nanhu district of Jiaxing city 嘉興市|嘉兴市[Jiā xīng shì], Zhejiang
大明湖
Dà míng Hú
  1. 1 Daming Lake in Jinan 濟南|济南[Jǐ nán], Shandong
天鹅湖
Tiān é Hú
  1. 1 Swan Lake
太湖
Tài Hú
  1. 1 Lake Tai near Wuxi City 無錫|无锡, bordering on Jiangsu and Zhejiang, one of China's largest freshwater lakes
山洞
shān dòng
  1. 1 cavern
  2. 2 cave
平湖
Píng hú
  1. 1 Pinghu county level city in Jiaxing 嘉興|嘉兴[Jiā xīng], Zhejiang
庭
tíng
  1. 1 main hall
  2. 2 front courtyard
  3. 3 law court
庭审
tíng shěn
  1. 1 court hearing
庭院
tíng yuàn
  1. 1 courtyard
东湖
Dōng hú
  1. 1 Donghu district of Nanchang city 南昌市, Jiangxi
法庭
fǎ tíng
  1. 1 court of law
洞察
dòng chá
  1. 1 to see clearly
洞悉
dòng xī
  1. 1 to clearly understand

Idioms (15)

人在江湖，身不由己
rén zài jiāng hú , shēn bù yóu jǐ
  1. 1 you can't always do as you like
  2. 2 one has to compromise in this world (idiom)
大相径庭
dà xiāng jìng tíng
  1. 1 as different as can be (idiom)
  2. 2 poles apart
小洞不堵，大洞受苦
xiǎo dòng bù dǔ , dà dòng shòu kǔ
  1. 1 A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); A stitch in time saves nine.
小洞不堵，大洞吃苦
xiǎo dòng bù dǔ , dà dòng chī kǔ
  1. 1 a small hole not plugged will give you grief when it gets bigger (idiom)
  2. 2 a stitch in time saves nine
小洞不堵，大洞难补
xiǎo dòng bù dǔ , dà dòng nán bǔ
  1. 1 If you don't plug the small hole, the big hole will be hard to repair (idiom); A stitch in time saves nine.
小洞不补大洞吃苦
xiǎo dòng bù bǔ dà dòng chī kǔ
  1. 1 A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine
引蛇出洞
yǐn shé chū dòng
  1. 1 lit. to pull a snake from its hole
  2. 2 to expose a malefactor (idiom)
洞房花烛
dòng fáng huā zhú
  1. 1 bridal room and ornamented candles
  2. 2 wedding festivities (idiom)
洞若观火
dòng ruò guān huǒ
  1. 1 clear as a flame (idiom); to see things absolutely clearly
湖光山色
hú guāng shān sè
  1. 1 scenic lakes and mountain (idiom); beautiful lake and mountain landscape
漏洞百出
lòu dòng bǎi chū
  1. 1 lit. one hundred loopholes (idiom); full of mistakes (of speech or article)
狗咬吕洞宾，不识好人心
gǒu yǎo Lu:3 Dòng bīn , bù shí hǎo rén xīn
  1. 1 a dog biting Lü Dongbin (idiom)
  2. 2 to ill reward a person's kindness
空洞无物
kōng dòng wú wù
  1. 1 empty cave, nothing there (idiom); devoid of substance
  2. 2 nothing new to show
门庭冷落，门堪罗雀
mén tíng lěng luò , mén kān luó què
  1. 1 The courtyard is deserted, you can net sparrows at the door (idiom); completely deserted
门庭若市
mén tíng ruò shì
  1. 1 front yard as busy as a marketplace (idiom)
  2. 2 a place with many visitors

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