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赤壁

Chìbì
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Red Cliffs, on the Yangtze in Hubei, site of the Battle of Red Cliffs in 208
  2. 2 Red Cliff at Huangzhou in Hubei, which Su Shi wrote about as the battlefield

Examples

HSK 7-9
曹操的大军在赤壁被打败了。
Cáo Cāo de dàjūn zài Chìbì bèi dǎbài le.
Cao Cao's great army was defeated at Red Cliffs.
HSK 7-9
苏轼被贬黄州后，写下了两篇游赤壁的赋。
Sū Shì bèi biǎn Huángzhōu hòu, xiěxià le liǎng piān yóu Chìbì de fù.
After Su Shi was banished to Huangzhou, he wrote two rhapsodies about visiting Red Cliff.

Tips

history
The battle site is usually placed at today's 赤壁市 on the south bank of the Yangtze. The cliff Su Shi visited in 1082 is at Huangzhou, far downstream, and he hedged in his ci 《念奴娇·赤壁怀古》: 'people say this is Zhou Yu's Red Cliff'. His cliff came to be called 东坡赤壁, the 'literary' Red Cliff beside the 'military' one.

In Pop Culture

赤壁 Chìbì
Red Cliff
John Woo's two-part film (2008–2009) about the battle, with Tony Leung as Zhou Yu and Takeshi Kaneshiro as Zhuge Liang.

Stroke Order

赤 chì
壁 bì