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| | the Great Wall | HSK 3 |
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| | city walls / city / town / CL: 座, 道, 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | town / cities and towns | HSK 6 |
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| | city and countryside | HSK 6 |
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| | city district / urban area | HSK 6 |
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| | unity of will is an impregnable stronghold (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the Forbidden City / the Imperial Palace in Beijing / same as 故宮|故宫 | |
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| | Shing Wong (deity in Chinese mythology) | |
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| | Echeng, a district of Ezhou City 鄂州市, Hubei | |
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| | Linyi county in Yuncheng 運城|运城, Shanxi | |
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| | Ciudad Real | |
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| | Lingcuan county in Jincheng 晉城|晋城, Shanxi | |
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| | lit. wind and rain sweeping through the town (idiom) / fig. a big scandal / an uproar / the talk of the town | |
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| | the Great Wall | |
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| | city wall | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Jincheng (common place name) / Chincheng town in Kinmen County 金門縣|金门县 (Kinmen or Quemoy islands), Taiwan | |
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| | capital of a country | |
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| | to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom); to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle | |
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| | major city; metropolis | |
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| | the empty city stratagem (in which Zhuge Liang presents himself as unperturbed while making it evident that his city is undefended, hoping his adversary will suspect an ambush); double bluff | |
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| | watchtower on either side of a city gate / (literary) city / imperial palace | |
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| | shopping center / department store | HSK 6 |
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| | urbanization | |
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| | rapid transit system / urban railway | |
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| | city defense | |
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| | Xiangcheng county (Tibetan: phyag 'phreng rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet) | |
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| | Chinatown | |
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| | Fenghuang Ancient Town, in Fenghuang County, Xiangxi Prefecture, Hunan, added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 2008 in the Cultural category | |
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| | Xia county in Yuncheng 運城|运城, Shanxi | |
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| | Shangcheng district of Hangzhou city 杭州市, Zhejiang | |
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| | subprovincial city (having independent economic status within a province) | |
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| | county seat; county town | |
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| | to go to town / to enter a big city (to live or work) | |
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| | ancient city | |
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| | Phoenix, capital of Arizona / also 菲尼克斯 | |
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| | Cheng District or Chengqu, a district of Shanwei City 汕尾市, Guangdong | |
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| | fine writing paper, originally from Jing county 涇縣|泾县, Xuancheng 宣城, Anhui | |
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| | Mexico City, capital of Mexico | |
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| | lit. until you reach the Great Wall, you're not a proper person; fig. to get over difficulties before reaching the goal | |
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| | city gate | |
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| | city dweller; townspeople | |
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| | Manchester, England / Manchester City football club | |
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| | PRC Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) (abbr. for 住房和城鄉建設部|住房和城乡建设部) | |
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| | tourist city | |
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| | the five ranges separating Hunan and Jiangxi from south China, esp. Guangdong and Guangxi, namely: Dayu 大庾嶺|大庾岭, Dupang 都龐嶺|都庞岭, Qitian 騎田嶺|骑田岭, Mengzhu 萌渚嶺|萌渚岭 and Yuecheng 越城嶺|越城岭 | |
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| | castle / rook (chess piece) | |
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| | Wangcheng, a district of Changsha City 長沙市|长沙市, Hunan | |
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| | Dacheng County in Langfang 廊坊, Hebei / Dacheng or Tacheng Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan | |
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| | Castlevania (video game series) | |
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| | open and candid (idiom); not hiding anything / ingenuous | |
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| | Sendai, capital of Miyagi prefecture 宮城縣|宫城县 in northeast Japan | |
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| | Luancheng, a district of Shijiazhuang City 石家莊市|石家庄市, Hebei | |
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| | (literary) towns / cities | |
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| | Wusu city in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区, Xinjiang | |
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| | Dongcheng, a district of central Beijing | |
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| | Chenggu County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi | |
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| | Lijiang old town (in Yunnan) | |
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| | Georgetown / (the spelling 喬治敦|乔治敦 is more common) | |
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| | Lincheng, a county in Xingtai City 邢臺市|邢台市, Hebei | |
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| | Xicheng, a district of central Beijing | |
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| | subsistence allowance / welfare (abbr. for 城市居民最低生活保障) | |
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| | Kowloon Walled City | |
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| | Jiaocheng county in Lüliang 呂梁|吕梁, Shanxi 山西 | |
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| | town planning | |
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| | university city | |
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| | Tongcheng, a county in Xianning City 咸寧市|咸宁市, Hubei | |
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| | ghost town | |
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| | city gate tower | |
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| | Weicheng District in Xianyang City 咸陽市|咸阳市, Shaanxi | |
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| | Shawan district of Leshan city 樂山市|乐山市, Sichuan / Shawan county or Saven nahisi in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区, Xinjiang | |
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| | the Acropolis (Athens) | |
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| | to besiege (a town) | |
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| | Xincheng, a district of Hohhot City 呼和浩特市, Inner Mongolia / Xincheng, a district of Xi'an City 西安市, Shaanxi | |
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| | casino town / nickname for Las Vegas | |
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| | Kaesong or Gaeseong city in southwest North Korea, close to the border with South Korea and a special economic zone for South Korean companies | |
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| | "satellite" town / edge city / exurb | |
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| | Rongcheng, a county in Baoding City 保定市, Hebei | |
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| | whole city | |
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| | coming from everywhere / from all over the place / gorgeous (of woman) / to ruin and overturn the state | |
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| | Chengzhong, a district of Liuzhou City 柳州市, Guangxi / Chengzhong, a district of Xining City 西寧市|西宁市, Qinghai | |
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| | moat (surrounding the city wall) | |
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| | Nancheng, a county in Fuzhou City 撫州市|抚州市, Jiangxi | |
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| | encircling the city (of walls, ring road etc) / around the city | |
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| | Juancheng county in Heze 菏澤|菏泽, Shandong | |
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| | Qian Zhongshu (1910–1998), Chinese scholar and writer, author of the 1947 novel Fortress Beseiged 圍城|围城 | |
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| | National Intercity Games, Chinese athletics competition, organized every four years since 1988 | |
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| | village within a city / shantytown / ghetto | |
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| | outside of a city | |
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