四一二事变 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 四一二事變 sìyīèrshìbiàn ㄙˋ ㄧ ㄦˋ ㄕˋ ㄅㄧㄢˋ the coup of 12th Mar 1927, an attempt by Chiang Kai-shek to suppress the communists called 反革命政变 or 惨案 in PRC literature Character by character 四(sì)four 一(yī)one 二(èr)two 事(shì)matter 变(biàn)change A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0