候风地动仪
Traditional form:
候風地動儀
Pinyin (reading):
hòufēngdìdòngyí
Definitions:
- the world's first seismograph invented by Zhang Heng 張衡／张衡 ( Zhāng Héng) in 132
Characters:
- 候 - to wait, to expect; to visit; to greet
- 风 - wind; air; customs, manners; news
- 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
- 动 - to move, to happen; movement, action
- 仪 - instrument, apparatus; ceremony, rites
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