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房玄齡

简房玄龄 · 繁房玄齡

Mandarin · pinyin Fáng Xuán líng

Fang Xuanling (579-648), Tang dynasty historian, compiler of History of Jin dynasty 晉書 Jìn shū

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房: fáng · house, building; room; 4th lunar mansion, determinative star π Scorpii
玄: xuán · deep, profound, abstruse; Kangxi radical 95
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龄: líng · age; years

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2–2–2 · Fang2 Xuan2 ling2

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