大家习惯把上海称为魔都，把北京称为帝都。

Everyone's used to calling Shanghai "Módū" and calling Beijing "Dìdū".

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 大家 dàjiā
  1. everyone
  2. influential family
  3. great expert
=1 大家 dàgū
  1. (literary) alternative form of 大姑 (dàgū, “respectful address for a woman”)
  2. alternative form of 大姑 (dàgū, “respectful address for a woman”)
2 习惯 xíguàn
  1. habit
  2. custom
  3. usual practice
  4. to be used to

classifier: 個
=3 把 bǎ
  1. to hold; to grasp
  2. to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate
  3. handlebar
  4. classifier: handful, bundle, bunch
  5. classifier for things with handles
  6. (used to put the object before the verb: 把 bǎ + {noun} + {verb})
=3 把 bà handle
=3 把 pá
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”)
4 上海 Shànghǎi Shanghai municipality (abbr. to 沪 Hù)
5 称为 chēngwéi to be called; to be known as; to call it "..."
6 魔都 Módū Modu, nickname for Shanghai
=7 把 bǎ
  1. to hold; to grasp
  2. to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate
  3. handlebar
  4. classifier: handful, bundle, bunch
  5. classifier for things with handles
  6. (used to put the object before the verb: 把 bǎ + {noun} + {verb})
=7 把 bà handle
=7 把 pá
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”)
8 北京 Běijīng Beijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China (abbr. to 京 Jīng)
9 称为 chēngwéi to be called; to be known as; to call it "..."
10 帝都 dìdū imperial capital