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太子丹

Mandarin · pinyin Tài zǐ Dān

Prince Dan of Yan (–226 BC), commissioned the attempted assassination of King Ying Zheng 嬴政 Yíng Zhèng of Qin 秦 Qín (later the First Emperor 秦始皇 Qín Shǐ huáng) by Jing Ke 荊軻 Jīng Kē in 227 BC

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太: tài · very, too, much; big; extreme
子: zǐ · offspring, child; fruit, seed of; first earthly branch
丹: dān · cinnabar (native HgS); vermilion (artificial HgS used as pigment)

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4–3–1 · Tai4 zi3 Dan1

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