大地震

dàdìzhèn

large earthquake (typically with a magnitude 7 or greater)

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Examples

若有大地震，房屋会倒塌呀！

If there's a big earthquake, the house could really collapse!

Source: Tatoeba

大地震發生的時候，我才十歲。

When the big earthquake occurred, I was just ten.

Source: Tatoeba

我聽到了淡路發生大地震的消息。

I heard the news that there had been a big earthquake in Awaji.

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

1 大地 dàdì
  1. earth
  2. mother earth
=2 震 zhèn
  1. to shake
  2. to vibrate
  3. to jolt
  4. to quake
  5. excited
  6. shocked
  7. one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦 bāguà, symbolizing thunder
  8. ☳
=2 震 shēn alternative form of 娠 (shēn, “to be pregnant”)

Containing this entry

唐山大地震 Tángshān Dàdìzhèn Great Tangshan Earthquake (1976)
四川大地震 Sìchuān Dàdìzhèn Great Sichuan Earthquake (2008)
汶川大地震 Wènchuān Dàdìzhèn Great Sichuan Earthquake (2008)
陝西大地震 Shǎnxīdàdìzhèn the great Shaanxi earthquake of 2nd February 1556 that killed 830,000 people