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行狀

简行状 · 繁行狀

Mandarin · pinyin xíng zhuàng

(literary) brief obituary
one's past experience
one's past record
Taiwan pr. xìng zhuàng

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行: xíng · go; walk; move, travel; circulate; Kangxi radical 144
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状: zhuàng · form; appearance; shape; official

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2–4 · xing2 zhuang4

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noun

brief biography of a deceased person (usually accompanying an obituary notice)

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