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峨眉山

Mandarin · pinyin É méi Shān#

Mount Emei in Sichuan, one of the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism

Mandarin · pinyin É méi shān#

see 峨眉山市 É méi shān Shì

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峨: é · lofty
眉: méi · eyebrows; upper margin of book
山: shān · mountain, hill, peak

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2–2–1 · E2 mei2 Shan1

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Mount Emei
(～市) Emeishan (a county-level city of Sichuan, China)

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