美丽岛事件

měi lì dǎo shì jiàn

Definitions

1. Kaohsiung Incident (aka Formosa Incident), a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on 10 December 1979 during Taiwan's martial law period

Child Words of 美丽岛事件

• 事 shì: matter
• 事件 shì jiàn: event
• 件 jiàn: item
• 岛 dǎo: island
• 美 měi: beautiful
• 美丽 měi lì: beautiful
• 美丽岛 měi lì dǎo: Formosa (from Ilha Formosa, \Beautiful Isle\, the name given to Taiwan Island by passing Portuguese mariners in 1544)
• 丽 lí: Korea
• 丽 lì: beautiful