汶川地震

Mandarin · pinyin Wèn chuān Dì zhèn

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  1. Great Sichuan Earthquake (2008)
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汶
wèn · a river in Shandong province
川
chuān · stream, river; flow; boil
地
de · dì · earth; soil, ground; region
震
zhèn · shake, quake, tremor; excite; trigram ☳; hexagram ䷲
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4–1–4–4 · Wen4 chuan1 Di4 zhen4

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man4 cyun1 dei6 zan3

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