八二三炮戰 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 八二三炮战 bāèrsānpàozhàn ㄅㄚ ㄦˋ ㄙㄢ ㄆㄠˋ ㄓㄢˋ bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis Character by character 八(bā)eight 二(èr)two 三(sān)surname San 炮(pào)cannon 戰(zhàn)fight A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0