tóngtuó
bronze camel
- 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 tóngtuójīngjí
- capital city
- (literary) the capital or the imperial court
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Synonym
- 铜驼荆棘 tóngtuójīngjí