怒江
Nù jiāng
Pinyin

Definition

怒江
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Nù jiāng
  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

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

喜怒哀乐
xǐ nù āi lè
  1. 1 four types of human emotions, namely: happiness 歡喜|欢喜[huān xǐ], anger 憤怒|愤怒[fèn nù], sorrow 悲哀[bēi āi] and joy 快樂|快乐[kuài lè]
怒
nù
  1. 1 anger
  2. 2 fury
  3. 3 flourishing
  4. 4 vigorous
怒火
nù huǒ
  1. 1 rage
  2. 2 fury
  3. 3 hot anger
愤怒
fèn nù
  1. 1 angry
  2. 2 indignant
  3. 3 wrath
  4. 4 ire
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
动怒
dòng nù
  1. 1 to get angry
吴江
Wú jiāng
  1. 1 Wujiang county level city in Suzhou 蘇州|苏州[Sū zhōu], Jiangsu
喜怒无常
xǐ nù wú cháng
  1. 1 temperamental
  2. 2 moody
大怒
dà nù
  1. 1 angry
  2. 2 indignant
岷江
Mín Jiāng
  1. 1 Min River, Sichuan

Idioms (20)

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
嬉笑怒骂
xī xiào nù mà
  1. 1 lit. laughs, jeers, anger and invective (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. all kinds of emotions
  3. 3 to mock and scold
  4. 4 (of writing) freely roving
  5. 5 following the author's fancy
心花怒放
xīn huā nù fàng
  1. 1 to burst with joy (idiom)
  2. 2 to be over the moon
  3. 3 to be elated
怒不可遏
nù bù kě è
  1. 1 unable to restrain one's anger (idiom); in a towering rage
怒形于色
nù xíng yú sè
  1. 1 to betray anger (idiom); fury written across one's face
怒气冲冲
nù qì chōng chōng
  1. 1 spitting anger (idiom); in a rage
怒目相向
nù mù xiāng xiàng
  1. 1 to glower at each other (idiom)
怒发冲冠
nù fà chōng guān
  1. 1 lit. hair stands up in anger and tips off one's hat (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. seething in anger
  3. 3 raise one's hackles
恼羞成怒
nǎo xiū chéng nù
  1. 1 to fly into a rage out of humiliation
  2. 2 to be ashamed into anger (idiom)
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
敢怒而不敢言
gǎn nù ér bù gǎn yán
  1. 1 angry, but not daring to speak out (idiom); obliged to remain silent about one's resentment
  2. 2 unable to voice objections
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
横眉怒目
héng méi nù mù
  1. 1 lit. furrowed brows and blazing eyes
  2. 2 to dart looks of hate at sb (idiom)
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

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