created sense approved 上有天堂，下有苏杭/上有天堂，下有蘇杭 · shàngyǒutiāntángxiàyǒusūháng · Suzhou and Hangzhou are paradise on earth — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
上有天堂，下有苏杭 / 上有天堂，下有蘇杭
shàngyǒutiāntángxiàyǒusūháng
Suzhou and Hangzhou are paradise on earth
Literally "above there is heaven, below there is [[苏州|蘇州|su1 zhou1]] and [[杭州|杭州|hang2 zhou1]]"; an idiom used to praise the extreme beauty and prosperity of those two cities.
上 (literal) → 上 · shàng · upper 有 (literal) → 有 · yǒu · there is 天堂 (literal) → 天堂 · tiāntáng · heaven ， (non_chinese) 下 (literal) → 下 · xià · below 有 (literal) → 有 · yǒu · there is 苏 (literal) → 苏/蘇 · sū · Suzhou 杭 (literal) → 杭 · háng · Hangzhou
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