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Mandarin · pinyin Huá róng Dào

Huarong Road (traditional puzzle involving sliding wooden blocks, loosely based on an episode in Three Kingdoms 三國演義 Sān guó Yǎn yì)

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華: Look up this written character
容: róng · looks, appearance; figure, form
道: dào · path, road, street; method, way
华: huá · flowery; illustrious; Chinese

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2–2–4 · Hua2 rong2 Dao4

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name

(historical) Huarongdao (a place in Hubei, China)

noun

Klotski (sliding puzzle)

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