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石城汤池
shí​chéng​tāng​chí

strongly fortified city

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 石城 shí​chéng
    stone city
    a city with stone walls; a stone fortress; a town built of stone
  2. 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