柏举之战

Traditional form:

柏舉之戰

Pinyin (reading):

Bǎijǔzhī Zhàn

Definitions:

• Battle of Baiju (506 BC), in which Wu 吳／吴 ( Wú) scored a crushing victory over Chu 楚 ( Chǔ)

Characters:

• 柏 - cypress, cedar
• 举 - to raise; to recommend; to praise
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 战 - war, fighting, battle

Traditional characters:

• 柏 - cypress, cedar
• 舉 - to raise; to recommend; to praise
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 戰 - war, fighting, battle