炎帝
Yán dì
Pinyin

Definition

炎帝
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Yán dì
  1. Flame Emperors (c. 2000 BC), legendary dynasty descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shén nóng] Farmer God

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

Shàng dì
  1. 1 God
dì guó
  1. 1 empire
  2. 2 imperial
huáng dì
  1. 1 emperor
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
yān yán
  1. 1 pharyngitis
dà dì
  1. 1 heavenly emperor
  2. 2 "the Great" (title)
  1. 1 emperor
dì guó zhǔ yì
  1. 1 imperialism
dì wáng
  1. 1 regent
  2. 2 monarch
dì dū
  1. 1 imperial capital
zhī qì guǎn yán
  1. 1 bronchitis
qì guǎn yán
  1. 1 bacterial tracheitis (inflammation of the windpipe, often caused by Staphylococcus aureus)
  2. 2 henpecked (a pun on 妻子管得严 used in comic theater)
xiāo yán
  1. 1 to reduce fever
  2. 2 antipyretic
  3. 3 to decrease inflammation
xiāo yán yào
  1. 1 anti-inflammatory medicine
Yán Yà lún
  1. 1 Aaron Yan (1986-), Taiwanese singer
yán xià
  1. 1 hot summer
  2. 2 scorching summer
yán yán
  1. 1 scorching
yán rè
  1. 1 blistering hot
  2. 2 sizzling hot (weather)
yán zhèng
  1. 1 inflammation
Yán Huáng zǐ sūn
  1. 1 descendants of the Fiery Emperor and the Yellow Emperor (i.e. Han Chinese people)
yù dì
  1. 1 the Jade Emperor

Idioms (7)

世态炎凉
shì tài yán liáng
  1. 1 the hypocrisy of the world (idiom)
吃饭皇帝大
chī fàn huáng dì dà
  1. 1 eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw)
天高皇帝远
tiān gāo huáng dì yuǎn
  1. 1 lit. the sky is high and the emperor is far away (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. remote places are beyond the reach of the central government
皇帝不急太监急
huáng dì bù jí tài jiàn jí
  1. 1 lit. the emperor is not worried, but his eunuchs are (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the observers are more anxious than the person involved
胡天胡帝
hú tiān hú dì
  1. 1 with all the majesty of an emperor (idiom)
  2. 2 reckless
  3. 3 intemperate
趋炎附势
qū yán fù shì
  1. 1 to curry favor (idiom); playing up to those in power
  2. 2 social climbing
黄炎贵胄
huáng yán guì zhòu
  1. 1 honorable Chinese nationals (idiom)

Sample Sentences

当然是古埃及文明早!金字塔4600多年前就有了!我们那时候还没建立国家呢!从炎帝黄帝算起,也要晚个一两千年吧。
dāngrán shì gǔ āijí wénmíng zǎo !jīnzìtǎ sìqiān liùbǎi duōnián qián jiù yǒu le !wǒmen nà shíhou hái méi jiànlì guójiā ne !cóng yándì huángdì suànqǐ ,yě yào wǎn ge yīliǎngqiānnián ba 。
Egypt, of course! The pyramids were around 4600 years ago! At that time China was not even a country! Taking the Yellow Emperor as the starting point, China was still about one to two thousand years later.