黄巾之乱

Traditional form:

黃巾之亂

Pinyin (reading):

Huángjīnzhī Luàn

Definitions:

• the Yellow Turbans Peasant Uprising at the end of later Han (from 184)

Characters:

• 黄 - yellow; surname
• 巾 - cloth, curtain, handkerchief, towel
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 乱 - anarchy, chaos; revolt

Traditional characters:

• 黃 - yellow; surname
• 巾 - cloth, curtain, handkerchief, towel
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 亂 - anarchy, chaos; revolt