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伽倻

Mandarin · pinyin Jiā yē

Gaya, a Korean confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea (42-532 AD)

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伽: jiā · transcription of Sanskrit 'gha' in Buddhist texts ('samgha', etc.); nursing; attending; entertainer (Japanese); temple; in Chinese this character is not used alone
倻: yē · phonetic used in Korean place names

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(historical) Gaya (ancient confederacy in Korea)

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