the great Shaanxi earthquake of 2nd February 1556 that killed 830,000 people
trad. 陝西大地震
Also written 陝西大地震【Shǎn xī dà dì zhèn】
Characters in this word
5陕
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short name for Shaanxi 陝西|陕西[Shan3 xi1]
- Pinyin
- Shǎn
- Traditional
- 陝
- Strokes
- 8
西
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the West, abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2], Spanish
- Pinyin
- Xī
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 2156 of 2500
大
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big; large; great, older (than another person), eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]), greatly; freely; fully, (dialect) father, (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- Pinyin
- dà
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 199 of 2500
地
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-ly, structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- Pinyin
- de
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 271 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