上有天堂，下有蘇杭

See also: 上有天堂，下有苏杭

Chinese

		up; on; on top up; on; on top; upon; first; previous or last; upper; higher; above; previous; to climb; to go into; to go up	to have; there is; there are to have; there is; there are; to exist; to be	heaven; paradise		under; next; lower under; next; lower; below; underneath; down(wards); to go down; latter	to have; there is; there are to have; there is; there are; to exist; to be	Suhang
trad. (上有天堂，下有蘇杭)		上	有	天堂	，	下	有	蘇杭
simp. (上有天堂，下有苏杭)		上	有	天堂	，	下	有	苏杭

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shàng yǒu tiāntáng, xià yǒu Sūháng

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄤˋ ㄧㄡˇ ㄊㄧㄢㄊㄤˊ, ㄒㄧㄚˋ ㄧㄡˇ ㄙㄨㄏㄤˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng⁶ jau⁵ tin¹ tong⁴, haa⁶ jau⁵ sou¹ hong⁴

上有天堂，下有蘇杭

There is heaven above and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below. This phrase praises the virtues of these two cities in respectively Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

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