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Usage of the character 堰

yàn
[堰]
  • weir
wéiyàn
围堰
[圍堰]
  • a cofferdam
tángyàn
塘堰
[塘堰]
  • irrigation pond or dam
Shíyàn
十堰
[十堰]
  • see 十堰市 ( Shíyàn Shì)
yànsèhú
堰塞湖
[堰塞湖]
  • barrier lake; landslide dam
  • dammed lake
Yàntíngzuò
堰蜓座
[堰蜓座]
  • Chamaeleon (constellation)
Shíyàn Shì
十堰市
[十堰市]
  • Shiyan, prefecture-level city in Hubei Province 湖北省 ( Húběi Shěng)
Dūjiāngyàn
都江堰
[都江堰]
  • Dujiangyan in Sichuan, a famous water engineering project and World Heritage Site
  • see 都江堰市 ( Dūjiāngyàn Shì)
Dūjiāngyàn Shì
都江堰市
[都江堰市]
  • Dujiangyan, a county-level city in Chengdu City 成都市 ( Chéngdū Shì), Sichuan
bīngláijiàngdí,shuǐláitǔyàn
兵来将敌,水来土堰
[兵來將敵,水來土堰]
  • counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
  • to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation