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Mandarin · pinyin Yù mén Guān

Yumen Pass, or Jade Gate, western frontier post on the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, west of Dunhuang, in Gansu

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Yumen Pass (a gap in the Great Wall of China, west of Dunhuang, located in what is today Gansu province)