tóng​tuó

bronze camel

铜驼 銅駝 tóng​tuó
bronze camel
(bound form) bronze camel; ancient bronze statues of camels placed outside palace gates in imperial China
Tongtuo Street
a famous street in ancient Luoyang named after the bronze camel statues located there
ruin of a country
(literary) a metaphor for the ruin or fall of a nation, often used in the phrase 铜驼荆棘 tóng​tuó​jīng​jí
capital city
(literary) the capital or the imperial court

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