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Mandarin · pinyin zhào

(literary) to admonish
(bound form) imperial edict

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诏: zhào · decree, proclaim; imperial decree

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4 · zhao4

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ziu3 · ziu6

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imperial decree
to decree; to proclaim
(historical) leader or king of non-Han peoples

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