香格里拉

Xiāng gé lǐ lā

Dictionary entry

Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth

What does 香格里拉 mean?

香格里拉 (Xiāng gé lǐ lā) has the following dictionary meaning.

1Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth

2see 香格里拉市[Xiang1 ge2 li3 la1 Shi4]

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香xiāngfragrant · sweet smelling 格gēused in 格登[ge1 deng1] · used in 格格[ge1 ge1]里lǐvariant of 裡|里[li3]拉lāto pull · to play (a bowed instrument)

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