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春聯

简春联 · 繁春聯

Mandarin · pinyin chūn lián

Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side)

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春: chūn · spring; wanton
聯: Look up this written character
联: lián · connect, join; associate, ally

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1–2 · chun1 lian2

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ceon1 lyun2

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noun

chunlian; Spring Festival couplet
(synecdochic, rhetoric, Chinese linguistics) duilian; antithetical couplet

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