biān​chéng

border town

  • created sense approved 边城/邊城 · biān​chéng · border town — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    边城 / 邊城

    biān​chéng

    border town

    a city or town located near a national border or in a remote frontier region

    边 (literal) → 边/邊 · biān · boundary 城 (literal) → 城 · chéng · city

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    created sense

  • created sense approved 边城/邊城 · biān​chéng · Border Town — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    边城 / 邊城

    biān​chéng

    Border Town

    the title of a famous 1934 novella by Shen Congwen [[沈从文|沈從文|shen3 cong2 wen2]]

    边 (literal) → 边/邊 · biān · boundary 城 (literal) → 城 · chéng · city

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense