萨尔浒之战
Traditional form:
薩爾滸之戰
Pinyin (reading):
Sà'ěrhǔzhī Zhàn
Definitions:
- Battle of Sarhu in 1619, in which the Manchus under Nurhaci 努爾哈赤/努尔哈赤 ( Nǔ'ěrhāchì) crushed four Ming armies
Characters:
- 萨 - Buddhist diety; used in transliterations
- 尔 - you; that, those; final particle
- 浒 - shore, river bank
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 战 - war, fighting, battle
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