城 chéng
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chéng
noun
a city; a town
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Geography
Notes: In the sense of 城市 (Guoyu '城' n 2; Mathews 1931 '城', p. 49; Unihan '城'; XHZD '城' 2, p. 85) -
chéng
noun
a city wall
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '城' 1, p. 48; Guoyu '城' n 1; Mathews 1931 '城', p. 49; XHZD '城' 1, p. 85) -
chéng
verb
to fortify
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '城' 1a, p. 48; Guoyu '城' v) -
chéng
noun
a fort; a citadel
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '城' 2a, p. 48)
Contained in
- 城乡(城鄉) city and countryside
- 高城深沟(高城深溝) high walls and a deep moat; a solid defense
- 胸有城府 subtle way of thinking; hard to fathom; deep and shrewd
- 斗城 small city ; Doucheng
- 扳回一城 to recover some lost ground (in a competition)
- 城市依赖症(城市依賴症) urban dependence disease
- 倾国倾城(傾國傾城) capable of causing the downfall of a city or state; (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful
- 阿城 Acheng
- 死城 ghost town
- 码长城(碼長城) to play mahjong
- 满城风雨(滿城風雨) wind and rain through the town /f a big scandal; an uproar; the talk of the town
- 孤城 an isolated city
- 砌长城(砌長城) to play mahjong
- 进城(進城) to go to town; to enter a big city (to live or work)
- 老城 old town; old district of a city
- 城壕 moat
- 狮城(獅城) Lion city
Also contained in
藁城市 、 源城 、 鹤城 、 薛城区 、 直城门 、 空城计 、 桐城派 、 塔城 、 城阳区 、 方城县 、 鲤城区 、 嘉峪关城 、 运城市 、 海城市 、 东城区 、 大兴城 、 通城 、 宛城区 、 乡城 、 金墉城 、 鹿城区 、 城北区 、 列城 、 宁城县 、 海淀图书城 、 渭城区 、 藁城县 、 达坂城 、 杨虎城 、 平城市 、 新城区 、 新城电台 、 九龙城寨 、 新城县
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- 卷106中 地形志二中 Volume 106b Treatise 2: Terrain 2 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 437
- 卷106上 地形志二上 Volume 106a Treatise 2: Terrain 1 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 359
- 卷三十九 志第十九: 地理二 Volume 39 Treatises 19: Geography 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 216
- 卷八十七 志第四十 地理三 Volume 87 Treatises 40: Geography 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 198
- 卷四十三下 志第三十三下 地理七下 Volume 43b Treatises 38: Gepgraphy 7b New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 170
- 卷三十八 志第十八: 地理一 Volume 38 Treatises 18: Geography 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 161
- 卷三十九 志第二十九 地理三 Volume 39 Treatises 33: Gepgraphy 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 108
- 卷106下 地形志二下 Volume 106c Treatise 2: Terrain 3 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 106
- 卷四十 志第二十: 地理三 Volume 40 Treatises 20: Geography 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 100
- 卷30 志第25 地理中 Volume 30 Treatises 25: Geography 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 97
Collocations
- 司城 (司城) 公子蕩為司城 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 19
- 城濮 (城濮) 公會齊侯於城濮 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 9
- 师城 (師城) 費伯帥師城郎 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 6
- 诸侯城 (諸侯城) 諸侯城之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 5
- 城虎 (城虎) 遂城虎牢 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 4
- 城杞 (城杞) 城杞 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 4
- 遂城 (遂城) 遂城而居之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 4
- 子城 (子城) 為大子城曲沃 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 閔公 Lord Min — count: 4
- 城成周 (城成周) 城成周 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
- 城郎 (城郎) 費伯帥師城郎 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 3