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Mandarin · pinyin xiàn chéng huà

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現: xiàn · appear, manifest, become visible
成: chéng · completed, finished, fixed
話: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect
现: xiàn · appear, manifest, become visible
话: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect

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4–2–4 · xian4 cheng2 hua4

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