玄武门之变

Traditional form:

玄武門之變

Pinyin (reading):

Xuánwǔménzhībiàn

Definitions:

• Xuanwu gate coup of June 626 in early Tang, in which Li Shimin 李世民 killed his brothers, seized the throne from his father as Emperor Taizong 唐太宗

Characters:

• 玄 - deep, profound, abstruse
• 武 - military; martial, warlike
• 门 - gate, door, entrance, opening
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 变 - to change, to transform, to alter; rebel

Traditional characters:

• 玄 - deep, profound, abstruse
• 武 - military; martial, warlike
• 門 - gate, door, entrance, opening
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 變 - to change, to transform, to alter; rebel