戈壁
Gē bì
Pinyin

Definition

戈壁
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Gē bì
  1. Gobi (desert)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

  1. 1 wall
  2. 2 rampart
bì zhǐ
  1. 1 wallpaper
Chì bì
  1. 1 Chibi county level city in Xianning 咸宁市, Hubei
  2. 2 Chibi or Red Cliff in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区 of Huanggang city 黄冈, Hubei, scene of the famous battle of Red Cliff of 208
gé bì
  1. 1 next door
  2. 2 neighbor
bì dēng
  1. 1 wall lamp
  2. 2 bracket light
  3. 3 CL:盞|盏[zhǎn]
bì lú
  1. 1 fireplace
bì huà
  1. 1 mural (painting)
  2. 2 fresco
bì hǔ
  1. 1 gecko
  2. 2 house lizard
qiào bì
  1. 1 cliff
  2. 2 steep
  3. 3 precipice
Gē bì
  1. 1 Gobi (desert)
tàn gē
  1. 1 tango (dance) (loanword)
Tài gē ěr
  1. 1 Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer
qiáng bì
  1. 1 wall
miàn bì
  1. 1 to face the wall
  2. 2 to sit facing the wall in meditation (Buddhism)
  3. 3 (fig.) to devote oneself to study, work etc
Yī gē ěr
  1. 1 Igor
dǎo gē
  1. 1 to change sides in a war
  2. 2 turncoat
cè bì
  1. 1 side wall
bīng gē
  1. 1 weapons
  2. 2 arms
  3. 3 fighting
  4. 4 war
bàn bì jiāng shān
  1. 1 half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands)
  2. 2 vast swathe of territory
tóng shì cāo gē
  1. 1 wielding the halberd within the household (idiom); internecine strife

Idioms (17)

兵戈扰攘
bīng gē rǎo rǎng
  1. 1 arms and confusion (idiom); turmoil of war
化干戈为玉帛
huà gān gē wéi yù bó
  1. 1 lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to turn hostility into friendship
同室操戈
tóng shì cāo gē
  1. 1 wielding the halberd within the household (idiom); internecine strife
向壁虚构
xiàng bì xū gòu
  1. 1 facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
向壁虚造
xiàng bì xū zào
  1. 1 facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
坚壁清野
jiān bì qīng yě
  1. 1 to fortify defenses and raze the fields (idiom); to leave nothing for the invader
  2. 2 scorched earth policy
壁垒一新
bì lěi yī xīn
  1. 1 to have one's defenses in good order (idiom)
大动干戈
dà dòng gān gē
  1. 1 to go to war (idiom)
  2. 2 to make a big fuss over sth
家徒四壁
jiā tú sì bì
  1. 1 lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. very poor
  3. 3 wretched
悬崖峭壁
xuán yá qiào bì
  1. 1 sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces (idiom)
悬崖绝壁
xuán yá jué bì
  1. 1 sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces (idiom)
枕戈寝甲
zhěn gē qǐn jiǎ
  1. 1 to sleep on one's armor with a spear as a pillow (idiom)
  2. 2 to keep ready for battle at all times
枕戈待旦
zhěn gē dài dàn
  1. 1 to wait for dawn, one's head resting on a spear (idiom)
  2. 2 fully prepared and biding one's time before the battle
残垣断壁
cán yuán duàn bì
  1. 1 crumbling fences and dilapidated walls (idiom)
铜墙铁壁
tóng qiáng tiě bì
  1. 1 copper wall, iron bastion (idiom); impenetrable defense
凿壁偷光
záo bì tōu guāng
  1. 1 lit. to pierce the wall to steal a light (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to study diligently in the face of hardship
颓垣断壁
tuí yuán duàn bì
  1. 1 crumbling fences and dilapidated walls (idiom)

Sample Sentences

最近雨水少,气候干燥。而且,我们这边靠近蒙古南部的戈壁地区,所以到了春末夏初,经常会有沙尘天气,有时还会有沙尘暴呢。
zuìjìn yǔ shuǐ shǎo ,qìhòu gānzào 。érqiě ,wǒmen zhèbiān kàojìn Ménggǔ nánbù de gēbì dìqū ,suǒyǐ dào le chūn mò xià chū ,jīngcháng huì yǒu shāchén tiānqì ,yǒushí hái huì yǒu shāchénbào ne 。
These days there isn't much rainfall and the climate is dry. Also, up here, we're right against the area of the Gobi Desert in the southern part of Mongolia, so at the end of spring and beginning of summer, there's often sand dust in the air. Sometimes there are even sandstorms.
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