斯大林格勒战役
Traditional form:
斯大林格勒戰役
Pinyin (reading):
Sīdàlíngélè Zhànyì
Definitions:
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces
Characters:
- 斯 - this, thus, such; emphatic particle; used in transliterations
- 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
- 林 - forest, grove; surname
- 格 - form, pattern, standard
- 勒 - to strangle; to tighten
- 战 - war, fighting, battle
- 役 - servant, laborer; service; to serve
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