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虎踞龙盘

hǔ jù lóng pán

4-character word Traditional 虎踞龍盤

What 虎踞龙盘 means

1. lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain

The characters in 虎踞龙盘

• 虎hǔtiger
• 踞jùto be based upon; to squat
• 龙lóngChinese dragon; loong; (fig.) emperor; dragon
• 盘pántray; plate; dish; (finance) (bound form) market prices; (computing; bound form) disk

Sounds the same

Read hǔ jù lóng pán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 虎踞龙蟠lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain