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破鏡

简破镜 · 繁破鏡

Mandarin · pinyin pò jìng

broken mirror
fig. broken marriage
divorce

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破: pò · break, ruin, destroy; rout
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镜: jìng · mirror; lens; glass; glasses

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4–4 · po4 jing4

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noun

(literally) broken mirror
parting of a married couple
(literary) waning moon; quarter moon; half-moon
(Chinese mythology) pojing, a ferocious beast that eats its own father

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