皇宫
huáng gōng
Pinyin

Definition

皇宫
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huáng gōng
  1. imperial palace

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

nu:3 huáng
  1. 1 empress
Huáng
  1. 1 surname Huang
huáng guān
  1. 1 crown (headgear)
huáng hòu
  1. 1 empress
  2. 2 imperial consort
huáng dì
  1. 1 emperor
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
Huáng Mǎ
  1. 1 Real Madrid soccer team
  2. 2 abbr. for 皇家馬德里|皇家马德里
guān miǎn táng huáng
  1. 1 high-sounding
  2. 2 dignified
  3. 3 pompous (idiom)
tiān huáng
  1. 1 emperor
  2. 2 emperor of Japan
Yù huáng Dà dì
  1. 1 Jade Emperor
huáng shang
  1. 1 the emperor
  2. 2 Your majesty the emperor
  3. 3 His imperial majesty
Huáng chéng
  1. 1 Imperial City, inner part of Beijing, with the Forbidden City at its center
huáng zǐ
  1. 1 prince
huáng shì
  1. 1 royal family
  2. 2 imperial household
  3. 3 member of the royal family
huáng gōng
  1. 1 imperial palace
huáng jiā
  1. 1 royal
  2. 2 imperial household
Qín Shǐ huáng
  1. 1 Qin Shihuang (259-210 BC), the first emperor
Qín huáng dǎo
  1. 1 Qinhuangdao prefecture level city in Hebei
sān huáng wǔ dì
  1. 1 three sovereigns 三皇[sān huáng] and five emperors 五帝[wǔ dì] of myth and legend
  2. 2 the earliest system of Chinese historiography
cāng huáng
  1. 1 in a panic
  2. 2 flurried
Táng Míng huáng
  1. 1 Emperor Ming of Tang (685-762), also known as Emperor Xuanzong of Tang 唐玄宗[Táng Xuán zōng], reigned 712-756

Idioms (12)

仓皇出逃
cāng huáng chū táo
  1. 1 to run off in a great panic (idiom)
冠冕堂皇
guān miǎn táng huáng
  1. 1 high-sounding
  2. 2 dignified
  3. 3 pompous (idiom)
吃饭皇帝大
chī fàn huáng dì dà
  1. 1 eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw)
天高皇帝远
tiān gāo huáng dì yuǎn
  1. 1 lit. the sky is high and the emperor is far away (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. remote places are beyond the reach of the central government
富丽堂皇
fù lì táng huáng
  1. 1 (of houses etc) sumptuous (idiom)
张皇失措
zhāng huáng shī cuò
  1. 1 panic-stricken (idiom)
  2. 2 to be in a flustered state
  3. 3 also written 張惶失措|张惶失措[zhāng huáng shī cuò]
皇天不负苦心人
Huáng tiān bù fù kǔ xīn rén
  1. 1 Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually.
皇天后土
huáng tiān hòu tǔ
  1. 1 heaven and earth (idiom)
皇帝不急太监急
huáng dì bù jí tài jiàn jí
  1. 1 lit. the emperor is not worried, but his eunuchs are (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the observers are more anxious than the person involved
皇亲国戚
huáng qīn guó qī
  1. 1 the emperor relatives (idiom); person with powerful connections
翻老皇历
fān lǎo huáng lì
  1. 1 to look to the past for guidance (idiom)
隔年皇历
gé nián huáng lì
  1. 1 lit. almanac from years back (idiom)
  2. 2 obsolete practice
  3. 3 old-fashioned principle

Sample Sentences

到了汉代,皇宫里夏季便有了“清凉殿”,内有多重降温装置,以石头为床,用玉晶盘装冰块,还有人站在一旁对着扇扇子,清凉无比。
dào le Hàndài ,huánggōng lǐ xiàjì biàn yǒu le “qīngliáng diàn ”,nèi yǒu duōchóng jiàngwēn zhuāngzhì ,yǐ shítou wèi chuáng ,yòng yù jīng pán zhuāng bīngkuài ,háiyǒu rén zhàn zài yīpáng duì zhe shān shànzi ,qīngliáng wúbǐ 。
In the Han Dynasty, the palace had a "cool hall" in the summer, with multiple cooling devices inside, such as a stone bed, plates made from jade crystals to store ice cubes and people using fans. The coolness was incomparable.
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我们会经过皇宫吗?
wǒmen huì jīngguò huánggōng ma ?
Will we pass by the palace?
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皇宫中
huánggōng zhōng
At the Imperial Palace
前面是著名的“大成殿”。据说皇帝来曲阜祭孔时,当地官员要用布把这些石柱包起来,不敢让皇帝看到。因为这些石柱比皇宫的还漂亮,怕皇帝看了忌妒。
qiánmian shì zhùmíng de “Dàchéng diàn ”。jùshuō huángdì lái Qūfù jìkǒng shí ,dāngdì guānyuán yào yòng bù bǎ zhèxiē shízhù bāo qǐlái ,bùgǎn ràng huángdì kàndào 。yīnwèi zhèxiē shízhù bǐ huánggōng de hái piàoliang ,pà huángdì kàn le jìdù 。
Up ahead is the famous Great Hall. It's said that when the emperor came to the Great Hall, the local officials would use cloth to wrap up these stone pillars and wouldn't dare let the emperor see them. This is because the pillars were more beautiful than the Imperial Palace and they were afraid the emperor would become jealous.