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室韋

简室韦 · 繁室韋

Mandarin · pinyin Shì wéi

the Shiwei tribes who inhabited an area to the northeast of Tang-dynasty China

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室: shì · room, home, house, chamber; 13th lunar mansion, determinative star α Pegasi (Markab)
韋: Look up this written character
韦: wéi · tanned leather; surname; simplified form of Kangxi radical 178

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(historical) Shiwei, an ancient ethnic group in China
(historical) previous county in Hulunbuir (repealed in 1933)
(now historical) Shiwei (an ethnic township in Ergun, Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China), now Mengwu Shiwei Sum and Enhe Russian Ethnic Township

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