Empat Reka Cipta Besar

Empat Penciptaan Besar
	Hongkong Post stamps commemorating the Four Great Inventions. Clockwise from top left: The compass, printing, papermaking, and gunpowder
Hanzi tradisional:	四大發明
Hanzi sederhana:	四大发明
Makna harfiah:	empat penciptaan besar
Alih aksara
	Mandarin
- Hanyu Pinyin:	sì dà fā míng
- Wade-Giles:	ssu⁴ ta⁴ fa¹ ming²
	Yue (Kantonis)
- Romanisasi Yale:	sei³ daai⁶ faat³ ming⁴
- Jyutping:	sei³ daai⁶ faat³ ming⁴

Empat Penciptaan Besar (Hanzi sederhana: 四大发明; Hanzi tradisional: 四大發明) adalah penciptaan-penciptaan dari Tiongkok kuno yang dipuji-puji dalam budaya Tionghoa karena signifikansi historisnya dan sebagai simbol dari sains dan teknologi Tiongkok kuno yang maju.^[1]

Lihat pula

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Buchanan, Brenda J., ed. (2006). Gunpowder, Explosives and the State: A Technological History. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 0-7546-5259-9.
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Needham, Joseph, ed. (1994). Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 7, Robin D.S. Yates, Krzysztof Gawlikowski, Edward McEwen, Wang Ling (collaborators) Military Technology; the Gunpowder Epic. Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.