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Mandarin · pinyin Dùn Hé

Don River

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河: hé · river; stream; the Yellow River
顿: dùn · pause, stop; bow, kowtow; arrange

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4–2 · Dun4 He2

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name · Etymology 1

Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia, flowing 1160 miles to the Sea of Azov)

name · Etymology 2

Don (a tributary of the Vilaine, Loire-Atlantique department, Pays de la Loire, France)

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