柳条湖事件

Traditional form:

柳條湖事件

Pinyin (reading):

Liǔtiáo Hú Shìjiàn

Definitions:

• the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria
• also known as 9-18 incident 九一八事變／九一八事变 ( Jiǔ Yībā Shìbiàn)

Characters:

• 柳 - willow tree; pleasure; surname
• 条 - clause, condition; string, stripe
• 湖 - lake; Hubei, Hunan; bluish-green
• 事 - affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
• 件 - item, matter; component, part; measure word for events

Traditional characters:

• 柳 - willow tree; pleasure; surname
• 條 - clause, condition; string, stripe
• 湖 - lake; Hubei, Hunan; bluish-green
• 事 - affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
• 件 - item, matter; component, part; measure word for events