| 武昌起义 |
Wǔ chāng Qǐ yì |
Wuchang Uprising of October 10th, 1911, which led to Sun Yat-sen's Xinhai Revolution and the fall of the Qing dynasty |
| 武 |
Wǔ |
surname Wu |
| 武 |
wǔ |
martial / military |
| 武昌 |
Wǔ chāng |
Wuchang district of Wuhan city 武汉市, Hubei |
| 昌 |
Chāng |
surname Chang |
| 昌 |
chāng |
(bound form) prosperous; flourishing |
| 起 |
qǐ |
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group |
| 起义 |
qǐ yì |
uprising / insurrection / revolt |
| 义 |
Yì |
surname Yi / (Tw) abbr. for 义大利, Italy |
| 义 |
yì |
justice / righteousness / meaning / foster (father etc) / adopted / artificial (tooth, limb etc) / relationship / friendship |