江山

jiāngshān
  1. rivers and mountains
  2. landscape
  3. country
  4. state power

CEDICT

  1. (literally) rivers and mountains; the land; a landscape
  2. (metonymic) the country; the state power
  3. (～市) Jiangshan (a county-level city of Quzhou, Zhejiang, China)
  4. Jiangshan (a county-level city of Quzhou, Zhejiang, China)
  5. rivers and mountains; the land; a landscape
  6. the country; the state power

Wiktionary

  1. 江河与山岳。
  2. 国土或国家政权。

重編國語辭典

Homographs

江山 Jiāngshān see 江山市 Jiāngshān Shì

Entry Composition

1 江 jiāng river

classifiers: 條, 道
2 山 shān (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on

classifier: 座

Containing this entry

半壁江山 bànbìjiāngshān
  1. half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands)
  2. vast swathe of territory
指点江山 zhǐdiǎnjiāngshān
  1. to talk idly about important matters (idiom)
  2. to set the world to rights
  3. to pass judgment on everything
江山易改禀性难移 jiāngshānyìgǎibǐngxìngnányí rivers and mountains are easy to change, man's character much harder
江山易改，本性难移 jiāngshānyìgǎi,běnxìngnányí
  1. it is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character (idiom)
  2. you can't change who you are
  3. Can the leopard change his spots?
万里江山 wànlǐjiāngshān
  1. lit. ten thousand miles of rivers and mountains
  2. a vast territory (idiom)
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Related entries

图景 tújǐng
  1. landscape (in a picture)
  2. (fig.) landscape (i.e. general situation)
  3. view of the situation
  4. mental picture
地景 dìjǐng
  1. landscape
  2. terrain
景观 jǐngguān landscape
草莓樹是該地區常見的景觀植物。

The strawberry tree is a commonly used landscape plant in this area.

Source: Tatoeba

山川 shānchuān
  1. mountains and rivers
  2. landscape
山水 shānshuǐ
  1. water from a mountain
  2. mountains and rivers
  3. scenery
  4. landscape
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