| 四川大地震 |
Sì chuān Dà dì zhèn |
Great Sichuan Earthquake (2008) |
| 四 |
sì |
four / 4 |
| 四川 |
Sì chuān |
see 四川省 |
| 川 |
Chuān |
short name for Sichuan 四川 |
| 川 |
chuān |
(bound form) river / creek / plain / an area of level country |
| 大 |
dà |
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) |
| 大 |
dài |
see 大夫 |
| 大地 |
dà dì |
earth / mother earth |
| 地 |
de |
-ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct |
| 地 |
dì |
earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:片 |
| 地震 |
dì zhèn |
earthquake |
| 震 |
zhèn |
to shake / to vibrate / to jolt / to quake / excited / shocked / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing thunder / ☳ |