鸦片战争
Traditional form:
鴉片戰爭
Pinyin (reading):
Yāpiàn Zhànzhēng
Definitions:
- the Opium Wars of 1840-1842 and 1860-1861
Characters:
- 鸦 - crow; Corvus species (various)
- 片 - slice, splinter; page, strip
- 战 - war, fighting, battle
- 争 - to dispute, to fight, to contend, to strive
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