美丽岛事件
Traditional form:
美麗島事件
Pinyin (reading):
Měilì Dǎo Shìjiàn
Definitions:
- Kaohsiung Incident (aka Formosa Incident), a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on 10 December 1979 during Taiwan's martial law period
Characters:
- 美 - beautiful, pretty; pleasing
- 丽 - beautiful, elegant, magnificent
- 岛 - island
- 事 - affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
- 件 - item, matter; component, part; measure word for events
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