雨城

Yǔchéng
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Rain City, nickname of Ya'an in Sichuan, and the name of its central district
  2. 2 Rain City, nickname of Bogor in Indonesia

Examples

HSK 4
Yǔchéng Yǎ'ān xiàyǔ de rìzi tèbié duō.
Ya'an, the Rain City, has an unusual number of rainy days.
HSK 7-9
Màowù yě bèi chēngwéi Yǔchéng, jīhū měi tiān xiàwǔ dōu yǒu léiyǔ.
Bogor is also known as the Rain City: there are thunderstorms almost every afternoon.

Tips

culture
Ya'an gets rain on more than 200 days a year. A local legend says the goddess 女娲 never finished patching the sky above it, which is why the city is also called 天漏 "the leaking sky".

Stroke Order

雨 yǔ
城 chéng