千秋
qiān qiū
Pinyin

Definition

千秋
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qiān qiū
  1. a thousand years
  2. your birthday (honorific)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

千
qiān
  1. 1 thousand
千万
qiān wàn
  1. 1 ten million
  2. 2 countless
  3. 3 many
  4. 4 one must by all means
千军万马
qiān jūn wàn mǎ
  1. 1 magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom); impressive display of manpower
  2. 2 all the King's horses and all the King's men
秋
Qiū
  1. 1 surname Qiu
中秋
Zhōng qiū
  1. 1 the Mid-autumn festival, the traditional moon-viewing festival on the 15th of the 8th lunar month
中秋节
Zhōng qiū jié
  1. 1 the Mid-Autumn Festival on 15th of 8th lunar month
千亿
qiān yì
  1. 1 myriads
  2. 2 hundred billion
千千万万
qiān qiān wàn wàn
  1. 1 lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers
  2. 2 innumerable
  3. 3 thousands upon thousands
千古
qiān gǔ
  1. 1 for all eternity
  2. 2 throughout all ages
千奇百怪
qiān qí bǎi guài
  1. 1 fantastic oddities of every description (idiom)
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
千年
qiān nián
  1. 1 millennium
千方百计
qiān fāng bǎi jì
  1. 1 lit. thousand ways, a hundred plans (idiom); by every possible means
千疮百孔
qiān chuāng bǎi kǒng
  1. 1 see 百孔千瘡|百孔千疮[bǎi kǒng qiān chuāng]
千篇一律
qiān piān yī lu:4
  1. 1 thousand articles, same rule (idiom); stereotyped and repetitive
  2. 2 once you've seen one, you've seen them all
千言万语
qiān yán wàn yǔ
  1. 1 thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say
  2. 2 talking nonstop
千载难逢
qiān zǎi nán féng
  1. 1 extremely rare (idiom)
  2. 2 once in a blue moon
千辛万苦
qiān xīn wàn kǔ
  1. 1 to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations
  2. 2 with difficulty
  3. 3 after some effort
千金
qiān jīn
  1. 1 thousand jin 斤 (pounds) of gold
  2. 2 money and riches
  3. 3 (honorific) invaluable (support)
  4. 4 (honorific) daughter
大千世界
dà qiān shì jiè
  1. 1 great wide world
  2. 2 marvelously diverse world
  3. 3 (Buddhism) cosmos (abbr. for 三千大千世界[sān qiān dà qiān shì jiè])

Idioms (20)

一失足成千古恨
yī shī zú chéng qiān gǔ hèn
  1. 1 a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
一字千金
yī zì qiān jīn
  1. 1 one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom)
  2. 2 (in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect
  3. 3 each word is highly valued
一掷千金
yī zhì qiān jīn
  1. 1 lit. stake a thousand pieces of gold on one throw (idiom); to throw away money recklessly
  2. 2 extravagant
一日三秋
yī rì sān qiū
  1. 1 a single day apart seems like three seasons (idiom)
一日不见，如隔三秋
yī rì bù jiàn , rú gé sān qiū
  1. 1 one day apart seems like three years (idiom)
一日千里
yī rì qiān lǐ
  1. 1 lit. one day, a thousand miles (idiom); rapid progress
一落千丈
yī luò qiān zhàng
  1. 1 lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline
  3. 3 to take a dive
一叶知秋
yī yè zhī qiū
  1. 1 lit. the falling of one leaf heralds the coming of autumn (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. a small sign can indicate a great trend
  3. 3 a straw in the wind
一言千金
yī yán qiān jīn
  1. 1 one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom); valuable advice
  2. 2 words of enormous weight
一诺千金
yī nuò qiān jīn
  1. 1 a promise worth one thousand in gold (idiom); a promise that must be kept
一雨成秋
yī yǔ chéng qiū
  1. 1 a sudden shower towards the end of summer brings an abrupt arrival of autumn (idiom)
冰壶秋月
bīng hú qiū yuè
  1. 1 jade ice jug and autumn moon (idiom, from poem by Song writer Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡); fig. spotless white and pure
  2. 2 flawless person
千依百顺
qiān yī bǎi shùn
  1. 1 totally submissive (idiom)
千千万万
qiān qiān wàn wàn
  1. 1 lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers
  2. 2 innumerable
  3. 3 thousands upon thousands
千古罪人
qiān gǔ zuì rén
  1. 1 sb condemned by history (idiom)
千古遗恨
qiān gǔ yí hèn
  1. 1 to have eternal regrets (idiom)
千奇百怪
qiān qí bǎi guài
  1. 1 fantastic oddities of every description (idiom)
千姿百态
qiān zī bǎi tài
  1. 1 in different poses and with different expressions
  2. 2 in thousands of postures (idiom)
千家万户
qiān jiā wàn hù
  1. 1 every family (idiom)
千虑一失
qiān lu:4 yī shī
  1. 1 reflect a thousand times and you can still make a mistake (idiom); to err is human

Sample Sentences

这听起来倒是像这么回事儿，那各国免税店那么多，价格还各不相同，特产也是各有千秋，怎么找到最值得买的啦？
zhè tīng qilai dǎo shì xiàng zhème huíshì r5 ，nà gèguó miǎn shuì diàn nàme duō ，jiàgé hái gèbùxiāngtóng ，tèchǎn yě shì gèyǒuqiānqiū ，zěnme zhǎodào zuì zhíde mǎi de la ？
It really does sound like it. So given that there are so many duty-free stores in every country, and the prices are all different, each with their own expertise in local delicacies, how do you find the stuff most worth buying?
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啊哈哈哈哈，也没有那么糟糕啦，人家是平胸骨感时尚范儿，你那是波涛汹涌肉欲范儿，各有千秋，都挺好都挺好！
ā hāhāhāhā ，yěméiyǒu nàme zāogāo la ，rénjiā shì píngxiōng gǔgǎn shíshàng fànr ，nǐ nà shì bōtāo xiōngyǒng ròuyù fànr ，gèyǒuqiānqiū ，dōu tǐng hǎo dōu tǐng hǎo ！
Ha ha ha, it's not that bad. Those other people are all flat-chested and bony fashionistas. Whereas you're a chick with raging sex appeal. Each of you have your advantages, you're both good!
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其实这两本书各有千秋，你不妨都买来看看。
qíshí zhè liǎng běn shū gèyǒuqiānqiū ，nǐ bùfáng dōu mǎi lai kànkan 。
Actually, each book has something to recommend it. There'd be no harm in buying both.
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