唐山大地震

Great Tangshan Earthquake (1976)

Tang dynasty (618-907) / surname Tang

to exaggerate / empty / in vain / old variant of 螗[tang2]

Tangshan prefecture-level city in Hebei / China (a name for China used by some overseas Chinese)

mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

earth / mother earth

-ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct

earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:片[pian4]

earthquake

to shake / to vibrate / to jolt / to quake / excited / shocked / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing thunder / ☳