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陕西大地震

Shǎn xī dà dì zhèndictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
the great Shaanxi earthquake of 2nd February 1556 that killed 830,000 people
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Reference definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source release 2026-10-27T01:55:52Z. Imported 2026-10-27. Definition wording and meaning order are retained. Recognized pronunciation references are displayed with tone marks; the original source record is available below.

Source record: cd-81818a720e5a1888. Source SHA-256: bbc4b27f26bee1a262f4d7939667a040c7857c7fc0200a2fa7a86d3352a09eae.

Original source entry:

陝西大地震 陕西大地震 [Shan3 xi1 da4 di4 zhen4] /the great Shaanxi earthquake of 2nd February 1556 that killed 830,000 people/

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Other forms in these source records: 陝西大地震

  • 陕
    Shǎn

    short name for Shaanxi 陝西|陕西[Shǎn xī]

  • 西
    xī

    west

    Xī

    the West / abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xī bān yá] / Spanish

  • 大
    dà

    big / large / great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[dà jiě]) / greatly / freely / fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

    dài

    see 大夫[dài fu]

  • 地
    de

    -ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct

    dì

    earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:片[piàn]

  • 震
    zhèn

    to shake / to vibrate / to jolt / to quake / excited / shocked / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[bā guà], symbolizing thunder / ☳

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