紫石英号

Traditional: 紫石英號

Zǐ shí yīng Hào

Dictionary entry

HMS Amethyst, Royal Navy corvette fired on by PLA forces on the Yangtze River in 1949, triggering the Amethyst Incident

What does 紫石英号 mean?

紫石英号 (Zǐ shí yīng Hào) has the following dictionary meaning.

1HMS Amethyst, Royal Navy corvette fired on by PLA forces on the Yangtze River in 1949, triggering the Amethyst Incident

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紫zǐpurple · violet 石Shísurname Shi · abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1], the capital of Hebei 英YīngUnited Kingdom · British 号háo(bound form) to wail; to howl

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