边寨

邊寨

biānzhài

noun #81,805

Measure Word

一座边寨 zuò

Meanings

1 frontier stockade
2 border village (typically of an ethnic minority)

Characters

stockade; mountain village

Examples

云南的边寨风景如画。

Yúnnán de biānzhài fēngjǐng rú huà.

Yunnan's frontier villages are picturesque.

他从小生长在西南边寨。

Tā cóng xiǎo shēngzhǎng zài xīnán biānzhài.

He grew up in a frontier village in the southwest.

Tips

culture

边寨 conjures the romanticized image of remote ethnic-minority villages along China's southwestern borders — Yunnan and Guangxi especially, home to Dai (傣 Dǎi), Wa (佤 Wǎ), and Hani (哈尼 Hāní) communities. The 1965 film 《景颇姑娘》 and many tourism brochures lean heavily on the word.

Stroke Order

边 biān

寨 zhài