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玄武
Mandarin · pinyin Xuán wǔ
Meanings
- Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky)
- (in Daoism) God of the north sky
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2–3 · Xuan2 wu3
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- (astronomy) the Black Turtle, a Chinese constellation making up one of the Four Symbols of Chinese astronomy.
- (feng shui) the Black Turtle, a representation of water and direction north.
- Xuanwu, a Taoist god.
- (～區) Xuanwu (a district of Nanjing, Jiangsu, China)
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