陕西大地震
Traditional form:
陝西大地震
Pinyin (reading):
Shǎnxīdàdìzhèn
Definitions:
- the great Shaanxi earthquake of 2nd February 1556 that killed 830,000 people
Characters:
- 陕 - mountain pass; the Shanxi province
- 西 - west, western, westward
- 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
- 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
- 震 - shake, quake, tremor; to excite
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