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Mandarin · pinyin zāi nàn piàn

disaster movie

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片: piàn · slice, splinter, strip; rad. 91
灾: zāi · calamity, disaster, catastrophe
难: nán · difficult, arduous, hard; unable

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1–4–4 · zai1 nan4 pian4

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