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三年自然災害
  saam1 nin4 zi6 jin4 zoi1 hoi6   jyutping
the three years beginning with 1959 were known as the Three Years of Natural Disasters such that food was in desperate shortage and production fell dramatically as a result of the Great Leap Forward (大躍進)

noun

Level: 4
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
三年自然災害

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Characters in this word:

 saam1 saam3  -  three; several
 nin4  -  year
 zi6  -  self; private; personal
 jin4  -  yes, correct; nevertheless
 zoi1  -  calamity; disaster; catastrophe
 hoi6  -  harm; disadvantage; disaster; kill
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