兵燹
Chinese
soldiers; a force; an army soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike |
conflagration | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (兵燹) | 兵 | 燹 | |
| simp. #(兵燹) | 兵 | 燹 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: bīngxiǎn
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥ ㄒㄧㄢˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: bingsiǎn
- Wade–Giles: ping1-hsien3
- Yale: bīng-syǎn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bingshean
- Palladius: бинсянь (binsjanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /piŋ⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: bing1 sin2
- Yale: bīng sín
- Cantonese Pinyin: bing1 sin2
- Guangdong Romanization: bing1 xin2
- Sinological IPA (key): /pɪŋ⁵⁵ siːn³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
兵燹
- (literary) fire and damage caused by war; ravages of war
- 再來翻縣志，就看見每一次兵燹之後，所添上的是許多烈婦烈女的氏名。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1925, February 6, Lu Xun（魯迅）, More Thoughts on the Collapse of Leifeng Pagoda（《再論雷峰塔的倒掉》）, English translation based on the work by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang
- Zàilái fān xiànzhì, jiù kànjiàn měi yīcì bīngxiǎn zhīhòu, suǒ tiānshàng de shì xǔduō lièfù liènǚ de shìmíng. [Pinyin]
- And if we look at the county annals, we find that after each war a new crop of virtuous women martyrs appears.
再来翻县志，就看见每一次兵燹之后，所添上的是许多烈妇烈女的氏名。 [MSC, simp.]