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骑鹤上扬州

qí hè shàng Yáng zhōu

5-character word Traditional 騎鶴上揚州

What 骑鹤上扬州 means

1. lit. to ride a crane to Yangzhou (idiom); to get an official position

The characters in 骑鹤上扬州

• 骑qíto sit astride; to ride (a horse, bike etc); classifier for saddle horses
• 鹤hècrane
• 上shàng(bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb…
• 扬yángto raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing
• 州zhōuprefecture; (old) province; (old) administrative division