美丽岛事件

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

matter / thing / item / work / affair / CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]

item / component / classifier for events, things, clothes etc

(bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 美洲[Mei3 zhou1]) / (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美國|美国[Mei3 guo2])

beautiful / very satisfactory / good / to beautify / to be pleased with oneself

beautiful / very satisfactory; good / to beautify / to be pleased with oneself

variant of 島|岛[dao3]

island / CL:個|个[ge4],座[zuo4]

event / happening / incident / CL:個|个[ge4]

beautiful

Korea

beautiful

Formosa (from Ilha Formosa, "Beautiful Isle", the name given to Taiwan Island by passing Portuguese mariners in 1544)