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川震

Mandarin · pinyin Chuān zhèn

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 Sì chuān Dà dì zhèn

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川: chuān · stream, river; flow; boil
震: zhèn · shake, quake, tremor; excite; trigram ☳; hexagram ䷲

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1–4 · Chuan1 zhen4

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