虎跳峡

虎跳峽
Hǔtiào Xiá
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Tiger Leaping Gorge, on the Jinsha River in Yunnan

Examples

HSK 4
Hǔtiào Xiá zài Lìjiāng hé Xiānggélǐlā zhījiān.
Tiger Leaping Gorge lies between Lijiang and Shangri-La.
HSK 7-9
Túbù chuānyuè Hǔtiào Xiá yào zǒu liǎng tiān.
Hiking through Tiger Leaping Gorge takes two days.

Tips

culture
Legend says a tiger fleeing a hunter crossed the river here in one bound, landing on a rock in midstream, the 虎跳石. The gorge cuts between 玉龙雪山 and 哈巴雪山, almost 4,000 metres below their peaks, one of the deepest gorges in the world.

Stroke Order

虎 hǔ
跳 tiào
峡 xiá