Chinese Vocabulary
板块
tectonic plate
bǎnkuài
Usage
A tectonic plate. The narrator places China's western seismic belts at the 欧亚板块和印度板块碰撞的前线 — the front line where the Eurasian and Indian plates collide. South China sits inside one plate's interior — historically calmer.
Hear it in real Fluentide episodes
板块 appears in 2 podcast episodes at natural native speed, with full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.