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白河

Mandarin · pinyin Bái hé

see 白河縣 Bái hé Xiàn

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白: bái · white; pure, unblemished; bright
河: hé · river; stream; the Yellow River

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2–2 · Bai2 he2

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name

(～縣) Baihe (a county of Ankang, Shaanxi, China)
(～市) Shirakawa (a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan)
(～區) Baihe (a district of Tainan, Taiwan)
Belaya (a river in Bashkortostan, Russia)

noun

(literary) Milky Way

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