兵燹

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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
(Pinyin): bīngxiǎn

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄥㄒㄧㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bing¹ sin²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bīngxiǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥㄒㄧㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bingsiǎn
  - Wade–Giles: ping¹-hsien³
  - Yale: bīng-syǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bingshean
  - Palladius: бинсянь (binsjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
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/

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.]
  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.]
  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.
  And if we look at the county annals, we find that after each war a new crop of virtuous women martyrs appears.

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