丽江
Lì jiāng
Pinyin

Definition

丽江
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Lì jiāng
  1. Lijiang prefecture-level city in northwest Yunnan

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

江
Jiāng
  1. 1 surname Jiang
江南
Jiāng nán
  1. 1 south of Changjiang or Yangtze river
  2. 2 south of the lower reaches of Changjiang
  3. 3 often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces
  4. 4 a province during Qing times
  5. 5 in literature, refers to the sunny south
  6. 6 Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)
江山
Jiāng shān
  1. 1 Jiangshan county level city in Quzhou 衢州[Qú zhōu], Zhejiang
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
江苏
Jiāng sū
  1. 1 Jiangsu province (Kiangsu) in southeast China, abbr. 蘇|苏, capital Nanjing 南京
江西
Jiāng xī
  1. 1 Jiangxi province (Kiangsi) in southeast China, abbr. 赣, capital Nanchang 南昌
浙江
Zhè jiāng
  1. 1 Zhejiang province (Chekiang) in east China, abbr. 浙, capital Hangzhou 杭州
长江
Cháng Jiāng
  1. 1 Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang
丽江
Lì jiāng
  1. 1 Lijiang prefecture-level city in northwest Yunnan
九江
Jiǔ jiāng
  1. 1 Jiujiang prefecture-level city in Jiangxi
  2. 2 also Jiujiang county
内江
Nèi jiāng
  1. 1 Neijiang prefecture level city in Sichuan
吴江
Wú jiāng
  1. 1 Wujiang county level city in Suzhou 蘇州|苏州[Sū zhōu], Jiangsu
岷江
Mín Jiāng
  1. 1 Min River, Sichuan
平江
Píng jiāng
  1. 1 Pingjiang district of Suzhou city 蘇州市|苏州市[Sū zhōu shì], Jiangsu
  2. 2 Pingjiang county in Yueyang 岳陽|岳阳[Yuè yáng], Hunan
廉江
Lián jiāng
  1. 1 Lianjiang county level city in Zhanjiang 湛江[Zhàn jiāng], Guangdong
怒江
Nù jiāng
  1. 1 Nujiang river of south Tibet and northwest Yunnan, the upper reaches of Salween river 薩爾溫江|萨尔温江, forming border of Myanmar and Thailand
指点江山
zhǐ diǎn jiāng shān
  1. 1 to talk idly about important matters (idiom)
  2. 2 to set the world to rights
  3. 3 to pass judgment on everything
晋江
Jìn jiāng
  1. 1 Jinjiang county level city in Quanzhou 泉州[Quán zhōu], Fujian
晋江市
Jìn jiāng shì
  1. 1 Jinjiang county level city in Quanzhou 泉州[Quán zhōu], Fujian
曲江
Qǔ jiāng
  1. 1 Qujiang district of Shaoguan City 韶關市|韶关市, Guangdong

Idioms (13)

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)
大江南北
Dà jiāng nán běi
  1. 1 north and south sides of the Yangtze River (idiom)
  2. 2 (fig.) all over China
指点江山
zhǐ diǎn jiāng shān
  1. 1 to talk idly about important matters (idiom)
  2. 2 to set the world to rights
  3. 3 to pass judgment on everything
文江学海
wén jiāng xué hǎi
  1. 1 river of literacy, sea of learning (idiom); ars longa, vita brevis
春江水暖鸭先知
chūn jiāng shuǐ nuǎn yā xiān zhī
  1. 1 lit. the duck is the first to know if the spring water is warm (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. an expert in the field knows which way the wind blows
江山易改，本性难移
jiāng shān yì gǎi , běn xìng nán yí
  1. 1 it is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character (idiom)
  2. 2 you can't change who you are
  3. 3 Can the leopard change his spots?
江河日下
jiāng hé rì xià
  1. 1 rivers pour away by the day (idiom); going from bad to worse
  2. 2 deteriorating day by day
江郎才尽
Jiāng láng cái jìn
  1. 1 Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to have used up one's creative powers
  3. 3 to have writer's block
无颜见江东父老
wú yán jiàn Jiāng dōng fù lǎo
  1. 1 (idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiàng Yǔ], who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)
翻江倒海
fān jiāng dǎo hǎi
  1. 1 lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. overwhelming
  3. 3 earth-shattering
  4. 4 in a spectacular mess
船到江心，补漏迟
chuán dào jiāng xīn , bǔ lòu chí
  1. 1 It's too late to plug the leak once ship is in the middle of the river. (idiom)
万里江山
wàn lǐ jiāng shān
  1. 1 lit. ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains
  2. 2 a vast territory (idiom)
长江后浪推前浪
Cháng Jiāng hòu làng tuī qián làng
  1. 1 lit. the rear waves of the Yangtze River drive on those before (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the new is constantly replacing the old
  3. 3 each new generation excels the previous
  4. 4 (of things) to be constantly evolving

Sample Sentences

走婚是纳西族的风俗，他们住在丽江，还过着母系氏族的生活。泼水节是傣族的，我初中时学过。
zǒuhūn shì Nàxīzú de fēngsú ，tāmen zhù zài Lìjiāng ，hái guò zhe mǔxì shìzú de shēnghuó 。Pōshuǐjié shì Dǎizú de ，wǒ chūzhōng shí xué guo 。
The walking marriage is a custom of the Nakhi people - they live in Lijiang and still live in a matriarchal society. The water festival is the Dai people - I learned that in junior high.
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