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  *城* | 城* | *城
city walls / city / town / CL: , , 個|个
HSK 3
the Great Wall
HSK 3
the Forbidden City / the Imperial Palace in Beijing / same as 故宮|故宫
"satellite" town / edge city / exurb
Chinatown
unity of will is an impregnable stronghold (idiom)
HSK 7-9
capital of a country
shopping center / department store
HSK 6
ancient city
Mexico City, capital of Mexico
Manchester, England / Manchester City football club
Dacheng County in Langfang 廊坊, Hebei / Dacheng or Tacheng Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县, Taiwan
casino town / nickname for Las Vegas
border town / remote town
ghost town
to besiege (a town)
whole city
to go to town / to enter a big city (to live or work)
Christchurch (New Zealand city)
Decheng district of Dezhou city 德州市, Shandong
Kaesong or Gaeseong city in southwest North Korea, close to the border with South Korea and a special economic zone for South Korean companies
Carson City, capital of Nevada
(Tw) Cannes, France
Yangcheng county in Jincheng 晉城|晋城, Shanxi
famous city
Fortress Besieged, 1947 novel by Qian Zhongshu 錢鍾書|钱钟书, filmed as a TV serial
siege / besieged city
Checheng township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan
Phoenix, capital of Arizona / also 菲尼克斯
Haidian Book City, Beijing bookstore
Ankorwat, Cambodia
Bay nahiyisi (Baicheng county) in Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, west Xinjiang
Mo i Rana (city in Nordland, Norway)
Yang Hucheng (1893-1949), Chinese warlord and Nationalist general
Licheng district of Jinan city 濟南市|济南市, Shandong
Baidi town in Chongqing 重慶|重庆, north of the Changjiang, an important tourist attraction
old town / old district of a city
the Acropolis (Athens)
semicircular defensive enclosure around city gates / crescent-shaped barbican
university city
encircling the city (of walls, ring road etc) / around the city
county seat; county town
to recover some lost ground (in a competition)
the Great Wall
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / abbr. for 費拉德爾菲亞|费拉德尔菲亚
capital city of King Helu of Wu from 6th century BC, at modern Wuxi, Jiangsu
Qaghiliq nahiyisi (Kargilik county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
Jiaocheng county in Lüliang 呂梁|吕梁, Shanxi 山西
see 占婆
Vatican City, capital of Holy See
Weicheng district of Weifang city 濰坊市|潍坊市, Shandong
Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone (Tw)
inner castle / donjon
Putrajaya, federal administrative territory of Malaysia, south of Kuala Lumpur city 吉隆坡市
Yuecheng district of Shaoxing city 紹興市|绍兴市, Zhejiang
Dabancheng district of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市, Xinjiang
coming from everywhere / from all over the place / gorgeous (of woman) / to ruin and overturn the state
Great Firewall of China (system for restricting access to foreign websites)
Syracuse, New York
square castle / mahjong layout (with the tiles laid out as a square)
Holy City
city of culture
Kowloon City, Hong Kong
Pyongsong (city in North Korea)
the Lion City, nickname for Singapore 新加坡
Yangcheng, a nickname for 廣州|广州
Ruicheng county in Yuncheng 運城|运城, Shanxi
Jiayuguan fort in the Gansu corridor / Ming dynasty military fort, the western end of the Great Wall
to massacre everyone in a captured city

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