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南越

Mandarin · pinyin Nán Yuè

South Vietnam
South Vietnamese

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南: nán · south; southern part; southward
越: yuè · exceed, go beyond; the more ...

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2–4 · Nan2 Yue4

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naam4 jyut6

Cantonese word readings for 南越. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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name

(～國) (historical) Nanyue (the Zhao Dynasty's successor state to the Qin Empire in modern-day Guangdong, Guangxi, and northern Vietnam)
area around modern Guangdong and Guangxi
(historical) South Vietnam (a former state in Southeast Asia that governed Vietnam south of the 17th parallel from 1955 to 1975)
southern Vietnam

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