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汤池铁城
tāng​chí​tiě​chéng

well-defended 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. 铁 鐵 tiě adjective
    firm
    firm; solid; hard; strong-willed
  3. 城 chéng nounproper noun
    city wall
    city walls; defensive walls surrounding a town or area