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劫

Mandarin · pinyin jié

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劫: jié · take by force, coerce; disaster

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to coerce; to compel; to threaten
to rob; to plunder; to take by force
(Buddhism) short for 劫波 (jiébō, “kalpa”) — (hyperbolic) extremely long time
(Buddhism) short for 劫波 (jiébō, “kalpa”) — (figurative, by extension) disaster; calamity; catastrophe

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