九一八事變 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 九一八事变 jiǔyībāshìbiàn ㄐㄧㄡˇ ㄧ ㄅㄚ ㄕˋ ㄅㄧㄢˋ the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext to annex Manchuria also known as Liutiaogou incident 柳条沟事变 Character by character 九(jiǔ)nine 一(yī)one 八(bā)eight 事(shì)matter 變(biàn)change A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0