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泰山北斗

Tài shān Běi dǒu

4-character word

What 泰山北斗 means

1. (lit.) Mount Tai and the Big Dipper (idiom)
2. (fig.) an outstanding figure in one's field

The characters in 泰山北斗

• 泰tàisafe; peaceful; most
• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 北běinorth; (classical) to be defeated
• 斗dòuto fight; to struggle; to condemn

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