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Mandarin · pinyin Kǎo wén chuí

Coventry, city in the West Midlands, England

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考: kǎo · examine, test; investigate
文: wén · literature, culture, writing
垂: chuí · let down; suspend, hand; down

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3–2–2 · Kao3 wen2 chui2

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Coventry (an industrial city and metropolitan borough of the West Midlands, in central England)
a transliteration of the English surname Coventry

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