黃鶴樓

1. • Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985
2. • favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes
3. • Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔颢 cuīhào, with theme 'the past will never return'
4. • one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳阳楼 yuèyánglóu in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王阁 téngwánggé in Nanchang, Jiangxi

Character by character

• 黃(huáng)surname Huang or Hwang
• 鶴(hè)crane
• 樓(lóu)surname Lou