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the Great Wall
HSK 3
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  *城* | 城* | *城
city walls / city / town / CL: , , 個|个
HSK 3
unity of will is an impregnable stronghold (idiom)
HSK 7-9
the Forbidden City / the Imperial Palace in Beijing / same as 故宮|故宫
Ciudad Real
the Great Wall
capital of a country
shopping center / department store
HSK 6
Chinatown
Fenghuang Ancient Town, in Fenghuang County, Xiangxi Prefecture, Hunan, added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 2008 in the Cultural category
county seat; county town
to go to town / to enter a big city (to live or work)
ancient city
Phoenix, capital of Arizona / also 菲尼克斯
Mexico City, capital of Mexico
Manchester, England / Manchester City football club
Castlevania (video game series)
Lijiang old town (in Yunnan)
Georgetown / (the spelling 喬治敦|乔治敦 is more common)
university city
ghost town
the Acropolis (Athens)
to besiege (a town)
casino town / nickname for Las Vegas
Kaesong or Gaeseong city in southwest North Korea, close to the border with South Korea and a special economic zone for South Korean companies
"satellite" town / edge city / exurb
whole city
coming from everywhere / from all over the place / gorgeous (of woman) / to ruin and overturn the state
encircling the city (of walls, ring road etc) / around the city
Christchurch (New Zealand city)
Panama City
Carson City, capital of Nevada
(Tw) Cannes, France
invaluable / priceless
famous city
lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful / also written 傾城傾國|倾城倾国
Mo i Rana (city in Nordland, Norway)
Baidi town in Chongqing 重慶|重庆, north of the Changjiang, an important tourist attraction
old town / old district of a city
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / abbr. for 費拉德爾菲亞|费拉德尔菲亚
Checheng township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan
Toucheng Town in Yilan County 宜蘭縣|宜兰县, Taiwan
semicircular defensive enclosure around city gates / crescent-shaped barbican
to recover some lost ground (in a competition)
Oklahoma City
see 占婆
Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone (Tw)
Miyagi (prefecture in Japan)
Putrajaya, federal administrative territory of Malaysia, south of Kuala Lumpur city 吉隆坡市
Vatican City, capital of Holy See
inner castle / donjon
Fortress Besieged, 1947 novel by Qian Zhongshu 錢鍾書|钱钟书, filmed as a TV serial
siege / besieged city
Penang (Malaysian state)
Syracuse, New York
square castle / mahjong layout (with the tiles laid out as a square)
(coll.) to play mahjong

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