故宮

故宫
Gùgōng
  1. the Forbidden City
  2. abbr. for 故宮博物院 Gùgōng Bówùyuàn

CEDICT

Homographs

故宮 gùgōng former imperial palace

Entry Composition

1 故 gù
  1. happening
  2. instance
  3. reason
  4. cause
  5. intentional
  6. former
  7. old
  8. friend
  9. therefore
  10. hence
  11. (of people) to die, dead
2 宮 gōng
  1. palace
  2. temple
  3. castration (as corporal punishment)
  4. first note in pentatonic scale

Containing this entry

故宮博物院 Gùgōng Bówùyuàn
  1. Palace Museum, in the Forbidden City, Beijing
  2. National Palace Museum, Taipei
瀋陽故宮 Shěnyáng Gùgōng Mukden Palace, aka Shenyang Imperial Palace, the main imperial palace during the early years of the Qing dynasty (1625-1644), a secondary palace in subsequent years, now a museum

Related entries

紫禁城 Zǐjìnchéng
  1. the Forbidden City
  2. the Imperial Palace in Beijing
  3. same as 故宮 Gùgōng
明代十五世纪初紫禁城是北京的中心。

In the Ming Dynasty (early 15th century) the centre of Beijing was the Forbidden City.

Source: Tatoeba