赤壁之战
Traditional form:
赤壁之戰
Pinyin (reading):
Chìbìzhī Zhàn
Definitions:
- Battle of Redcliff of 208 at Chibi in Huangzhou district 黃州區／黄州区 ( Huángzhōuqū) of Huanggang city 黃岡／黄冈 ( Huánggāng), a decisive defeat of Cao Cao 曹操 ( Cáo Cāo) at the hands of southern kingdom of Wu
- famous episode in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義／三国演义 ( Sānguó Yǎnyì)
Characters:
- 赤 - red, scarlet; blushing; bare, naked
- 壁 - partition, wall; rampart
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 战 - war, fighting, battle
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