Sichuan great earthquake, the magnitude 8 earthquake of May 2008 at Wenchuan 汶川, Sichuan, that killed more than 80,000 people; same as 四川大地震[Si4 chuan1 Da4 di4 zhen4]
Characters in this word
2川
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short name for Sichuan 四川[Si4 chuan1]
- Pinyin
- Chuān
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 19693 of 2500
震
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to shake, to vibrate, to jolt, to quake, excited, shocked, one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing thunder, ☳
- Pinyin
- zhèn
- Strokes
- 15
- Frequency
- 18549 of 2500