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Mandarin · pinyin Jīng Kē

Jing Ke (-227 BC), celebrated in verse and fiction as would-be assassin of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇)

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荆: jīng · thorns; brambles; my wife; cane
轲: kē · axle; personal name of Mencius

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