美丽岛事件 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 美麗島事件 měilìdǎoshìjiàn ㄇㄟˇ ㄌㄧˋ ㄉㄠˇ ㄕˋ ㄐㄧㄢˋ Kaohsiung Incident (aka Formosa Incident), a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on 10 December 1979 during Taiwan's martial law period Character by character 美(měi)the Americas 丽(lì)beautiful 岛(dǎo)island 事(shì)matter 件(jiàn)item A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0