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汶川地震

Mandarin · pinyin Wèn chuān Dì zhèn

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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