紫坪铺水库

紫坪鋪水庫

ZǐpíngpūShuǐkù

popculture

Meanings

1 Zipingpu Reservoir
2 Zipingpu Dam (large hydroelectric dam on the Min River, Sichuan)

Characters

level ground; flat

post-stop; spread out

storehouse; reservoir

Examples

紫坪铺水库位于成都西北的岷江上。

Zǐpíngpū Shuǐkù wèiyú Chéngdū xīběi de Mínjiāng shàng.

Zipingpu Reservoir is located on the Min River, northwest of Chengdu.

汶川地震中紫坪铺水库受到严重影响。

Wènchuān dìzhèn zhōng Zǐpíngpū Shuǐkù shòudào yánzhòng yǐngxiǎng.

The Zipingpu Reservoir was severely affected during the Wenchuan earthquake.

Tips

history

Completed in 2006 on Sichuan's Min River, just upstream of the 2,200-year-old Dujiangyan irrigation system. After the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (M7.9), peer-reviewed papers proposed the reservoir's water load may have triggered or hastened the rupture — the "reservoir-induced seismicity" debate over Zipingpu remains unsettled.

In Pop Culture

都江堰 Dūjiāngyàn

Dujiangyan

Ancient (256 BCE) Qin-era irrigation works just downstream of Zipingpu, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

汶川地震 Wènchuān dìzhèn

Wenchuan earthquake

May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake; sparked scientific controversy over whether Zipingpu reservoir loading played a triggering role.

Stroke Order

紫 zǐ

坪 píng

铺 pù

水 shuǐ

库 kù