寒武纪生命大爆发

Traditional form:

寒武紀生命大爆發

Pinyin (reading):

Hánwǔjìshēngmìngdàbàofā

Definitions:

• the Cambrian explosion

Characters:

• 寒 - chilly, cold; poor; to shiver, to tremble
• 武 - military; martial, warlike
• 纪 - discipline, age; period, era; record, annal
• 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
• 命 - life; destiny, fate, luck; an order, instruction
• 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
• 爆 - crackle, pop; burst, explode
• 发 - to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair

Traditional characters:

• 寒 - chilly, cold; poor; to shiver, to tremble
• 武 - military; martial, warlike
• 紀 - discipline, age; period, era; record, annal
• 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
• 命 - life; destiny, fate, luck; an order, instruction
• 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
• 爆 - crackle, pop; burst, explode
• 發 - to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair