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寒武纪生命大爆发

Hán wǔ jì shēng mìng dà bào fādictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
the Cambrian explosion
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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-af6a27ce48b23649. Source SHA-256: bbc4b27f26bee1a262f4d7939667a040c7857c7fc0200a2fa7a86d3352a09eae.

Original source entry:

寒武紀生命大爆發 寒武纪生命大爆发 [Han2 wu3 ji4 sheng1 ming4 da4 bao4 fa1] /the Cambrian explosion/

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Other forms in these source records: 寒武紀生命大爆發

  • 寒
    hán

    cold / poor / to tremble

  • 武
    wǔ

    martial / military

    Wǔ

    surname Wu

  • 纪
    jì

    order / discipline / age / era / period / to chronicle

    Jǐ

    surname Ji / also pr. [Jì]

  • 生
    shēng

    to grow / to give birth / to produce / to be born / to arise / to occur / to light (a fire) / to live / to be alive / life / raw / uncooked / unprocessed / unfamiliar / strange / (bound form) student / person engaged in a field / (bound form) male role in traditional opera / (bound form) life / lifetime / (bound form) means of livelihood / (bound form) very / intensely (as in 生疼[shēng téng]) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[shēng lā yìng zhuài])

  • 命
    mìng

    life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc

  • 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]

  • 爆
    bào

    to explode / to burst / to stir-fry briefly / to quick-boil

  • 发
    fā

    to send out / to show (one's feeling) / to issue / to develop / to make a bundle of money / classifier for gunshots (rounds)

    fà

    hair / Taiwan pr. [fǎ]

Reference definitions from CC-CEDICT.