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汤池金城
tāng​chí​jīn​chéng

strongly fortified city

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 汤池 湯池 tāng​chí
    impenetrable moat
    (literary) A moat filled with boiling water, used as a metaphor for an extremely strong and impenetrable defense; often used in the idiom 金城汤池 jīn​chéng​tāng​chí
  2. 金城 jīn​chéng
    impregnable city
    an extremely strong or fortified city; literally a city of metal