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Mandarin · pinyin běn jì

biographic sketch of an emperor

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本: běn · root, origin, source; basis
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纪: jì · record, annal, historical account

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3–4 · ben3 ji4

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noun

(literary) basic legal system of a country
(literary) all the details from the beginning to the end
(historiography) annal of a monarch

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