眷村
juàn cūn
Pinyin

Definition

眷村
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juàn cūn
  1. military dependents' village (community established in Taiwan for Nationalist soldiers and their dependents after the KMT retreated from the mainland in 1949)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

村
cūn
  1. 1 village
nóng cūn
  1. 1 rural area
  2. 2 village
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
xiāng cūn
  1. 1 rustic
  2. 2 village
  3. 3 countryside
Zhōng guān cūn
  1. 1 Zhongguancun neighborhood of Beijing, containing Peking University, famous for electronics shops and bookstores
shān cūn
  1. 1 mountain village
cūn gū
  1. 1 village girl
  2. 2 country bumpkin
cūn zi
  1. 1 village
cūn mín
  1. 1 villager
cūn zhuāng
  1. 1 village
  2. 2 hamlet
  3. 3 CL:座[zuò]
cūn luò
  1. 1 village
cūn zhǎng
  1. 1 village chief
  2. 2 village head
juàn shǔ
  1. 1 family member
  2. 2 husband and wife
juàn liàn
  1. 1 to miss
  2. 2 to long for
  3. 3 to remember with longing
  4. 4 yearning
juàn gù
  1. 1 to care for
  2. 2 to show concern for
  3. 3 to think longingly (of one's country)
huāng cūn
  1. 1 an abandoned village
Huá xī Cūn
  1. 1 Huaxi Village in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省[Jiāng sū Shěng]
Zhōng cūn
  1. 1 Nakamura (Japanese surname)
Yà yùn cūn
  1. 1 Yayuncun neighborhood of Beijing
bàn pō cūn
  1. 1 archaeological site near Xi'an
Zhōu cūn
  1. 1 Zhoucun district of Zibo city 淄博市[Zī bó shì], Shandong

Idioms (6)

前不着村,后不着店
qián bù zháo cūn , hòu bù zháo diàn
  1. 1 lit. no village ahead and no inn behind (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be stranded in the middle of nowhere
  3. 3 to be in a predicament
携家带眷
xié jiā dài juàn
  1. 1 to take all one's family along (idiom); encumbered by a family
  2. 2 tied down by family obligations
有情人终成眷属
yǒu qíng rén zhōng chéng juàn shǔ
  1. 1 love will find a way (idiom)
村村寨寨
cūn cūn zhài zhài
  1. 1 every village and stockade (idiom)
过了这个村就没这个店
guò le zhè ge cūn jiù méi zhè ge diàn
  1. 1 past this village, you won't find this shop (idiom)
  2. 2 this is your last chance
过了这村没这店
guò le zhè cūn méi zhè diàn
  1. 1 past this village, you won't find this shop (idiom)
  2. 2 this is your last chance

Sample Sentences