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三江源

Mandarin · pinyin Sān jiāng yuán

Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve, high plateau region of Qinghai containing the headwaters of Changjiang or Yangtze, Huanghe or Yellow River and Lancang or Mekong River

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三: sān · three
江: jiāng · large river; the Yangzi; surname
源: yuán · spring; source, head; surname

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1–1–2 · San1 jiang1 yuan2

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Sanjiangyuan (a nature reserve of the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai, China, which contains the headwaters of the three great rivers of Asia: the Yellow River, the Yangtze, and the Mekong)

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