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焚書坑儒

简焚书坑儒 · 繁焚書坑儒

Mandarin · pinyin fén shū kēng rú

to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇 Qín Shǐ huáng)

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2–1–1–2 · fen2 shu1 keng1 ru2

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fan4 syu1 haang1 jyu4

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(historical, also figurative) "burning of books and burying of scholars" (an event in the Qin dynasty)