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保定

Mandarin · pinyin Bǎo dìng

see 保定市 Bǎo dìng Shì

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保: bǎo · protect, safeguard, defend, care
定: dìng · decide, settle, fix

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3–4 · Bao3 ding4

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verb

(literary) to protect and stabilize
(literary) to hold stably

name

(～市) Baoding (a prefecture-level city of Hebei, China; the former provincial capital of Zhili during the Qing dynasty, and Hebei from 1949 to 1958 and 1966 to 1968)

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